Left main coronary artery disease: secular trends in patient characteristics, treatments, and outcomes

PH Lee, JM Ahn, M Chang, S Baek, SH Yoon… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - jacc.org
Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is the highest-risk lesion subset of ischemic heart
disease, and has traditionally been an indication for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) …

Relationship between intravascular ultrasound guidance and clinical outcomes after drug-eluting stents: the assessment of dual antiplatelet therapy with drug-eluting …

B Witzenbichler, A Maehara, G Weisz, FJ Neumann… - Circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Prior small to modest-sized studies suggest a benefit of intravascular
ultrasound (IVUS) guidance in noncomplex lesions. Whether IVUS guidance is associated …

Clinical impact of intravascular ultrasound guidance in drug-eluting stent implantation for unprotected left main coronary disease: pooled analysis at the patient-level …

JM de la Torre Hernandez, JA Baz Alonso… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2014 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to investigate the clinical impact of the use of intravascular
ultrasound (IVUS) during revascularization of patients with left main coronary artery (LM) …

[HTML][HTML] Drug eluting stents for malignant airway obstruction: a critical review of the literature

W Hohenforst-Schmidt, P Zarogoulidis, G Pitsiou… - Journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lung cancer being the most prevalent malignancy in men and the 3 rd most frequent in
women is still associated with dismal prognosis due to advanced disease at the time of …

Long-term clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention for ostial/mid-shaft lesions versus distal bifurcation lesions in unprotected left main coronary …

T Naganuma, A Chieffo, E Meliga, D Capodanno… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2013 - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare, in a large all-comer registry, the long-term
clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents …

[HTML][HTML] Intravascular ultrasound guidance improves clinical outcomes during implantation of both first-and second-generation drug-eluting stents: a meta-analysis

N Nerlekar, CJ Cheshire, KP Verma… - …, 2017 - eurointervention.pcronline.com
Aims: Our aim was to assess whether intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) improves clinical
outcomes during implantation of first-and second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) …

Safety and effectiveness of second-generation drug-eluting stents in patients with left main coronary artery disease

PH Lee, O Kwon, JM Ahn, CH Lee, DY Kang… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: Limited data are available on the relative performances between different types
of drug-eluting stents (DES) for obstructive left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) …

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents versus coronary artery bypass grafting in left main …

A Garg, SV Rao, S Agrawal, K Theodoropoulos… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies had shown acceptable
short-term efficacy and safety of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting …

Intravascular ultrasound and outcomes after drug-eluting stent implantation

GS Mintz - Coronary artery disease, 2017 - journals.lww.com
There have been nine published randomized trials and 30 registry studies comparing
intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided drug-eluting stent implantation versus conventional …

Intravascular ultrasound guidance improves patient survival (mortality) after drug-eluting stent implantation: review and updated bibliography

GS Mintz - Cardiovascular intervention and therapeutics, 2020 - Springer
Individual studies IVUS vs angiography-guided DES implantation studies, whether
randomized clinical trials or registries are underpowered, to show a reduction in mortality …