With respect to prevention of important clinical events, including cardiac death, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) under optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance performs similarly to PCI ...

CAD, coronary artery disease, stent, atherosclerosis, angiogram, angiography IVUS-guided DES implantation resulted in a lower incidence of target-vessel failure at 12 months for patients undergoing ...

“There was some debate about IVUS many years ago, but then randomized controlled trials came out, as well as other observational studies, to show that it is effective in optimizing post-PCI results, ...

Another study, this one a large registry analysis from Korea with long-term follow-up, has provided support for use of IVUS-guided PCI in patients with acute myocardial infarction. After 4 years, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There have been no head-to-head, outcome-based clinical trials that compare imaging vs. physiology guidance in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 3 years, among the 1,423 patients for whom data were available, TVF, defined as cardiac death, target vessel ...

ATLANTA -- The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes resulted in better outcomes compared with ...

Randomized to optical coherence tomography (OCT) or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance, patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with contemporary stents showed a decrease ...

In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients’ need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation is superior to traditional angiography-guided DES implantation in reducing target vessel failure (TVF), a new analysis ...

Enrolling 3,349 patients, the IVUS sub-study is part of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) ADAPT-DES study (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents), a prospective ...

This approach significantly reduces the risk of future re-narrowing of the artery and improves long-term outcomes for ...