Many Left Main Stenoses May Be IVUS Bystanders. In addition, Dr. Moses was skeptical of the investigators’ claim to have evaluated patients with ‘intermediate’ left main lesions ‘prospectively,’ since ...

An IVUS-derived left main MLA of <6.0 mm 2 is currently considered a safe cutoff for deciding upon a revascularization strategy based upon this lesion severity.

In this new study, investigators randomized 210 patients (mean age 62 years; 71.3% male) with left main coronary artery disease to PCI with IVUS or the control group without IVUS assessment. The ...

boxed-textFassa AA et al. (2005) Intravascular ultrasound-guided treatment for angiographically indeterminate left main coronary artery disease: a long-term follow-up study.

Techniques like intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are increasingly recommended to guide ...

IVUS, OCT Imaging for PCI ... For example, he said, based on observational evidence and experience, it may be that IVUS is best for left-main and ostial coronary lesions, and bypass grafts, ...

May 14, 2008 (Barcelona, Spain) - Proponents of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) say it is an essential tool in the cath lab for understanding lesion morphology, deploying drug-eluting stents (DES ...

Congenital absence of the left main is common and a benign finding (the LAD and circumflex arise separately from the left coronary cusp). Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is frequently used to ...

Cortese B, de la Torre Hernandez JM, Lanocha M, et al. Optical coherence tomography, intravascular ultrasound or angiography guidance for distal left main coronary stenting: the ROCK cohort II study.

The Eagle Eye Platinum digital IVUS catheter is the #1 choice of physicians for intravascular imaging ... Appropriate for peripheral and coronary vessels, including left main, bifurcations, ...