Cardio-oncology: A Focus on Cardiotoxicity
Review Article | By Koutsoukis A, Ntalianis A, Repasos E et al.
Review Article | By Nerlekar N, Cheshire CJ, Verma KP et al.
AIMS - Our aim was to assess whether intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) improves clinical outcomes during implantation of first- and second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES). IVUS guidance is associated with improved clinical outcomes during DES implantation, but it is unknown whether this benefit is limited to either first- or second-generation devices. METHODS AND RESULTS - MEDLINE, EMBASE...
Review Article | By Steinvil A, Zhang YJ, Garcia-Garcia HM et al.
The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance for drug-eluting stent (DES) optimization is limited by the number of adequately powered randomized control trials (RCTs). We performed an updated meta-analysis, including data from recently published RCTs and observational studies, by reviewing the literature in Medline and the Cochrane Library to identify studies that compared clinical outcomes between IVUS-guide...
Intravascular ultrasound-guided unprotected left main coronary artery stenting in the elderly
Original Research | By Hur SH, Kang SJ, Park SJ et al.
OBJECTIVES - To compare long-term clinical outcomes between intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided and angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a large "real world" registry. BACKGROUND - The impact of IVUS-guided PCI on clinical outcomes remains unclear. METHODS - Between January 1998 and February 2006, 8,371 patients who underwent IVU...
Original Research | By Park KW, Kang SH, Yang HM et al.
BACKGROUND - Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) offers tomographic images of coronary artery, helping physicians refine percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. However, it is still controversial whether routine use of IVUS in conventional lesions leads to improvement in clinical outcomes after PCI. METHODS - From the EXCELLENT trial, patients were grouped into IVUS-guided versus IVUS-...
Original Research | By Rosenberg M, Waliszewski M, Chin K et al.
OBJECTIVES - This prospective, observational all-comers registry assessed the safety and efficacy of a Drug Coated Balloon-only strategy (DCB-only) in patients with coronary lesions. BACKGROUND - Data regarding the performance of a DCB-only approach, especially in patients with previously untreated de-novo coronary artery disease (CAD), are still limited. METHODS - This study was c...