Takayuki Warisawa, Christopher M Cook, Yoshiaki Kawase, James P Howard, Yousif Ahmad, Henry Seligman, Christopher Rajkumar, Takumi Toya, Shunichi Doi, Akihiro Nakajima, Toru Tanigaki, Hiroyuki Omori, Masafumi Nakayama, Rafael Vera-Urquiza, Sonoka Yuasa, Takao Sato, Yuetsu Kikuta, Hidetaka Nishina, Rasha Al-Lamee, Sayan Sen, Amir Lerman, Yoshihiro J Akashi, Javier Escaned, Hitoshi Matsuo, Justin E Davies
There have been no studies comparing clinical outcomes of physiology-guided revascularization in patients with unprotected left main coronary disease (ULMD) between percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The aim of this study was to assess the long-term clinical outcomes between PCI and CABG of patients with physiologically significant ULMD. From an international multicenter registry of ULMD patients interrogated with instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR), we analyzed data from 151 patients (85 PCI vs...
April 5, 2023: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics