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

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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 ...

Intravascular imaging-guided PCI showed benefit vs. angiography for patients with left main CAD, with significantly lower risk for cardiac death or spontaneous target vessel-related MI ...

Of the patients assigned to angiography-guided PCI, 92 (15%) underwent IVUS-guided PCI, of whom 59 (64%) had a lesion located at a left main coronary-artery bifurcation.

Authors: Rodriguez-Leor O, de la Torre Hernandez JM, García Camarero T, et al., on behalf of the iLITRO-EPIC07 Study Investigators. Citation: Instantaneous Wave Free Ratio for the Assessment of ...

Angiographic assessment of a left main coronary artery (LMCA) stenosis is often difficult and unreliable, so it is recommended to confirm lesion severity with intracoronary imaging or physiology. The ...

Nicholls SJ, Hsu A, Wolski K, et al. Intravascular ultrasound-derived measures of coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden and clinical outcome. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:2399-2407.

We found 11 reports about PCI of Cabrol conduit–left main coronary artery (LMCA) anastomosis. However, thus far, cases involving the combination of PCI and virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound ...

All IVUS images (0.1-mm interval) were independently reviewed off-line by a core laboratory at the Mayo Clinic using standard techniques with automated software algorithms (QIvus 3.1, MEDIS medical ...