Left Coronary Trunk articles

Bifurcación de tronco de coronaria distal: cantidad de stents

Bifurcation Lesion in Distal Left Main Coronary Artery: One or Two Stents?

Bifurcation Lesion in Distal Left Main Coronary Artery: One or Two Stents?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Unprotected left main coronary artery (LMCA) angioplasty has become an important trend in the last few years.   One of the most significant unresolved questions about it is whether one stent is better than two in distal lesions, and how is their progress after treatment.   This study included 937 patients who

More Evidence For Left Main PCI

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Left main coronary artery disease (LMD), has historically been treated with myocardial revascularization surgery (CABG), but for some years now, and with the development of new drug eluting stents (DES), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been gathering support in this challenging territory.   The study analyzed the SYNTAX and PRECOMBAT

Angioplastia a tronco de coronaria izquierda no es inferior a la cirugía

Left Main Coronary Artery Angioplasty Would Be Non-Inferior to Surgery

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Left main coronary artery (LMCA) lesions have always been defined as high-risk, with surgery as treatment of choice. Drug-eluting stents (DES) have slowly changed that, but their use still lacks strong supporting evidence.   The Evaluation of XIENCE versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Effectiveness of Left Main Revascularization (EXCEL) study

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Experienced Operators: 50% Lower Mortality Rates?

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia.   The link between operator volume and clinical outcomes has been long and widely debated. After years of discussion, there are promoters and detractors. Currently, interventional cardiology societies all over the world classify centers as “high-volume” or “low-volume” using arbitrary parameters, and require training fellows to perform an also arbitrary number of

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Left main PCI: Requiem for the Syntax score?

Original Title: Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes After Everolimus-Eluting Stenting for Unprotected Left Main Disease and High Anatomic Coronary Complexity. Reference: JACC Cardiovascular Interventions. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.02.016. Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia.   In patients with unprotected left main disease (ULMD) associated to complex coronary anatomy, choosing a revascularization strategy can be challenging. Current guidelines recommend surgery for

TAVR-LM Registry: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Left Main Stenting

Original Title: Outcomes in Patients with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Left Main Stenting. The TAVR-LM Registry. Reference: TarunChakravarty et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol 67, N° 8, 2016. Courtesy of Dr. Santiago F. Coroleu.  High surgical risk patients with severe aortic stenosis and significant left main aortic arterydiseaseare often treated combining

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LEMANS Trial: Left main stenting vs. surgery at 10 years

Original Title: Left main stenting in Comparison with Surgical Revascularization 10-year outcomes of the (Left Main Coronary Stenting) LE MANS trial. Reference: Buszman P et al. J Am CollCardiolIntv. 2016;9(4):318-327. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2015.10.044. Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro. Long term outcomes of left main stenting are unknown. This study reports 10 year follow up outcomes of the LEMANS trial patients. The

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