AIMS In acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the optimal revascularization strategy for unprotected left main coronary disease (ULMCD) has been little studied. The objectives of the present study were to describe the practice of ULMCD revascularization in ACS patients and its evolution over an 8-year period, analyse the prognosis of this population and determine the effect of revascularization on ou...

For the acute myocardial infarction patient, percutaneous coronary intervention is clearly superior to thrombolysis for many clinical end points, yet widespread availability of PCI services is still far from being realised.

Aim: Both recurrent myocardial infarction (ReMI) and bleeding events after acute (AMI) were reportedly associated with increased mortality. To date, the prognostic impact of these on subsequent outcomes in East Asians is still unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate or thrombotic during phase mortality time-dependent change patients AMI undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the total length of the stents and the postoperative life quality of patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Using the short-form health survey (SF-36) items, we analyzed the data on the postoperative life quality of 166 patients with multi-vessel coronary artery diseas...

I n this issue of the Journal, Dangas et al. (1) report on an important subgroup of patients from the FREEDOM (Comparison of Two Treatments for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease in Individuals With Diabetes) trial, a trial in which patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and multivessel coronary disease were randomized to revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary bifurcation lesions has been associated with lower procedural success rates and worse clinical outcomes compared with PCI for simple coronary lesions. Angiographic evaluation alone is sometimes inaccurate and does not reflect the functional significance of bifurcation lesions. The fractional flow reserve (FFR) is an easily obtainable, reliab...

Despite unfavorable outcomes in the early era of LMCA percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), interventionalists have continued attempting percutaneous treatment for LMCA stenosis (3). Technical advances in PCI and stent technology, particularly with the widespread availability of drug-eluting stents (DES), have led physicians to re-evaluate the role of PCI as a viable alternative treatment f...

A 72-year-old man with a heavily calcified coronary lesion underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using a third-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) with thin stent struts. Two months after the PCI, in-stent restenosis due to stent recoil (SR) occurred. An intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) revealed deformed stent struts and heavily calcified coronary plaque. The SR probably occurred du...

The incidence of guiding catheter tip fracture, is quite rare during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Retained broken catheter tip in coronary artery and circulation can result in serious complications such as thrombosis, embolism, acute occlusion and myocardial infarction, arrhythmias and sepsis. It is mandatory to remove the fractured catheter as soon as possible to avoid these comp...