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Author(s): Maciej Lesiak Added: 3 years ago
While provisional stenting has remained the preferred strategy for majority of bifurcation lesions, controversies still exist regarding when and how to use complex techniques. Most of randomised studies comparing simple and complex approaches have focused on selected populations, included both ‘true’ and ‘non-true’ bifurcation lesions, used first-generation drug eluting stents (DES) and favoured… View more
Author(s): Robert Gil , Dobrin Vassilev , Jacek Bil Added: 3 years ago
The treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions (BL) is still challenging for interventional cardiologists, due to the relatively high-risk of the side branch (SB) closure and the increased long-term restenosis.1 The idea of a dedicated bifurcation stent (DBS) was proposed as a solution for problems associated with the BL treatment by means of a classical stent.1 Three groups of stents are… View more
Author(s): Luca Longobardo , Alessio Mattesini , Serafina Valente , et al Added: 3 years ago
Coronary artery bifurcation lesions are treated in 15–20% of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures and are still plagued by worse outcomes.1 This is in spite of recent significant advancements in stent technology in general and in bifurcation stenting techniques in particular. Conventional angiography provides only limited information about bifurcation anatomy, plaque distribution… View more
Author(s): Joanna J Wykrzykowska , Willem J van der Giessen Added: 3 years ago
Approach to the Bifurcation Patient Historically, bifurcation lesions have been associated with lower procedural success and a poorer clinical outcome than non-bifurcation lesions. This may be due to the technical difficulty of the procedure but also due to the complexity of the patients. According to the recently presented LEADERS trial sub-study,1 patients who have bifurcation disease are… View more
Author(s): John Rawlins , Jehangir Din , Suneel Talwar , et al Added: 3 years ago
A bifurcation lesion within the coronary arterial circulation is defined as a stenosis occurring at, or adjacent to, a significant division of a major epicardial coronary artery.1 Bifurcation lesions account for 1–20% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), and treatment remain technically challenging despite advances in PCI techniques and third-generation drug-eluting stent (DES)… View more
Author(s): Goran Stankovic , Zlatko Mehmedbegovic , Milorad Zivkovic Added: 3 years ago
Approximately 15–20% of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) are performed to treat coronary bifurcations. These procedures are renowned for being technically challenging and historically have been associated with lower procedural success rates and worse clinical outcomes compared with non-bifurcation lesions.1,2 A bifurcation lesion is a lesion occurring at, or adjacent to, a significant… View more
Author(s): J Raider Estrada , Jonathan D Paul , Atman P Shah , et al Added: 3 years ago
While the breadth of procedural offerings in interventional cardiology (IC) has exponentially expanded over the past four decades to include cardiac structural, peripheral arterial, and venous interventions, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains at the core of the field, accounting for the greatest percentage of therapeutic catheter-based procedures performed by IC practitioners in the… View more
Author(s): Shao-Liang Chen , Imad Sheiban Added: 3 years ago
Bifurcation lesions account for approximately 20–30% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Coronary bifurcation sites are prone to developing obstructive atherosclerotic disease due to turbulent blood flow and change of shear stress. With the complexity of bifurcation lesions, several classification systems have been advocated in order to extablish percutaneous strategies.1–3 In fact… View more