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AUTHOR
D. Capodanno
Clinical use of intracoronary imaging. Part 1: guidance and optimization of coronary interventions. An expert consensus document of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions
This Consensus Document is the first of two reports summarizing the views of an expert panel organized by the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) on the clinical use of intracoronary imaging including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). The first document appraises the role of intracoronary imaging to guide percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) in clinical practice. Current evidence regarding the impact of intracoronary imaging guidance on cardiovascular outcomes is summarized, and patients or lesions most likely to derive clinical benefit from an imaging-guided intervention are identified. The relevance of the u…
Treatment of multilesion coronary artery disease with simultaneous drug-eluting and bare-metal stent implantation: Clinical follow up and angiographic mid-term results
OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate clinical and angiographic outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients receiving both bare-metal stents (BMS) and drug-eluting stents (DES). BACKGROUND: Few data are available about the safety and efficacy of the practice namely called "hybrid PCI". METHODS: One hundred and eighty-six patients, 502 de novo lesions, received during PCI both BMS (n ≤ 266) and DES (316), with a mean of 3.1 ± 1.2 stents/patient. Cumulative major adverse cardiac events were analyzed at 24 ± 22 months. RESULTS: Clinical follow up was carried out in 100 of eligible patients. Angiographic follow up at 8.6 ± 4.4 months was achieved in 70.4 of patients, 71.6 of st…