Dong-Ho Shin, Kyung Woo Park, Bon-Kwon Koo, Il-Young Oh, Jae-Bin Seo, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, Myung-Ho Jeong, In-Whan Seong, Seung Woon Rha, Ju-Young Yang, Seung-Jung Park, Jung Han Yoon, Kyoo-Rok Han, Jong-Sun Park, Seung-Ho Hur, Seung-Jea Tahk, Hyo-Soo Kim
This study compared two-stent strategies for treatment of bifurcation lesions by stenting order, 'main across side first (A-family)' vs 'side branch first (S-family). The study population was patients from 16 centers in Korea who underwent drug eluting stent implantation with two-stent strategy (A-family:109, S-family:140 patients). The endpoints were cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI), stent thrombosis (ST), and target lesion revascularization (TLR) during 3 years. During 440.8 person-years (median 20...
August 2011: Journal of Korean Medical Science