PCR Journal Club

The investigator initiated, multicentre, randomised, EBC TWO trial compared a provisional strategy with a systematic culotte technique in patients with true non-LMS bifurcation disease. At one year, there was no difference between the groups in terms of the composite endpoint of all-cause mortality, MI or TVR....

Provisional stenting (PS) is the default approach for treating most coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL). The side branch (SB) can be compromised after main vessel (MV) stenting in up to 6-18 % of cases. The 17th Expert consensus document of the European Bifurcation Club details strategies for...

The OPTIMUM study evaluates the outcomes in patients with complex CAD, including significant LM disease, its equivalent, or MVD CAD, undergoing percutaneous revascularization in addition to guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) versus GDMT alone.

The current analysis examines patient characteristics and outcomes following LM PCI performed in NSC in England and Wales.

The purpose of the ROLEX Registry (Revascularization Of LEft main with resolute onyX) was to explore outcomes using a more contemporary drug eluting stent platform which is more suitable for LM PCI.

The HOST-REDUCE-POLYTECH-ACS trial was a randomised, parallel-group multicentre trial with a 2x2 factorial design testing two independent hypotheses, one of which was the non-inferiority of durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES) to biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) in patients with ACS. In this post-hoc analysis, the authors...

The primary objective of the study was to assess whether an IVUS-based stent optimization provided an incremental value in terms of vessel-related adverse event occurrence in patients presenting with low post-PCI FFR (<0.90).

Part I of the 16th EBC consensus document presents a detailed analysis of possible pitfalls associated with each step of the provisional single stent approach and it provides a compendium of the pertinent strategies for rescue and prevention. Also included in this review: lead author Remo Albiero...

Although the default strategy remains a stepwise provisional strategy, the authors of the 16th expert consensus document recognize that up to 25 % of all single stent approaches eventually require a second.

This retrospective observational study was undertaken in patients referred for transradial coronary angiography (CA) or PCI to assess the impact of sheath sizes and haemostasis techniques on RAO incidence.