PCR Journal Club

The PCR Journal Club provides a selection of Literature Reviews of top interventional cardiovascular journals world-wide, selected and commented by the PCR Journal Club team.

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Topics: Bifurcation lesion, Left main and multivessel disease

38 results

Defining percutaneous coronary intervention complexity and risk: an analysis of the UK BCIS Database 2006-2016

04 Jan 2022

A multiple logistic regression model was developed to identify variables associated with in-hospital MACCE and to construct a CHIP score. The cumulative effect of this score on patient outcomes was examined.

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Defining percutaneous coronary intervention complexity and risk: an analysis of the United Kingdom BCIS Database 2006-2016

Fractional flow reserve to guide treatment of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease - the FUTURE trial

05 Nov 2021

The FUTURE Trial is a prospective randomised, multicentre, open label superiority trial comparing an FFR guided treatment strategy to traditional angiography guided treatment strategy on clinical outcomes in an all-comer population with multivessel coronary artery disease.

Nicola Ryan

Reviewer

Nicola Ryan
Fractional flow reserve to guide treatment of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease - the FUTURE trial

Optical coherence tomography to guide percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main coronary artery: the LEMON study

08 Jul 2021

The aim of the LEMON study was to assess the applicability of a predefined standardized protocol, which included three OCT runs.

Reviewer

Mila Kovacevic
Dejan Milasinovic

Reviewer

Dejan Milasinovic
OCT to guide PCI of LMCA: the LEMON study

Operator volumes and in-hospital outcomes: an analysis of 7,740 rotational atherectomy procedures from the BCIS national database

05 Jul 2021

Find out more about the results of this analysis which suggest that operator experience may be an important effect modifier in ROTA-PCI.

Nicola Ryan

Reviewer

Nicola Ryan
Operator volumes and in-hospital outcomes: an analysis of 7,740 rotational atherectomy procedures from the BCIS national database

Clinical outcomes of proximal optimization technique (POT) in bifurcation stenting

22 Jun 2021

Find out more about what is considered the largest real-world registry data permitting analysis of very specific steps of bifurcation stenting, POT, and KBI.

Dr. Mirvat Alasnag

Reviewer

Mirvat Alasnag
Khaled F. Al-Shaibi

Reviewer

Khaled Al-Shaibi
Clinical outcomes of proximal optimization technique (POT) in bifurcation stenting

EBC MAIN Late-breaking trial analysis

13 Jun 2021

Examination of the study methodology and results according to the PICOT principle, SWOT analysis and real-world applicability of the EBC MAIN trial presented at EuroPCR 2021.

EBC MAIN Late-breaking trial analysis

Intravascular lithotripsy for treatment of calcified coronary lesions: patient-level pooled analysis of the Disrupt CAD studies

11 May 2021

Using patient-level data from the Disrupt CAD I, II, III and IV trials, this pooled analysis assesses the efficacy and safety of intravascular lithotripsy in de novo calcified coronary lesions.

M. Pighi

Reviewer

Michele Pighi
Nicola Ryan

Reviewer

Nicola Ryan
IVL for treatment of CCL: patient-level pooled analysis of the Disrupt CAD studies

Mortality 10 years after percutaneous or surgical revascularization in patients with total coronary artery occlusions

16 Feb 2021

The proposed manuscript is an intriguing sub-analysis from the recent SYNTAX Extended Survival (SYNTAXES) study, where the Synergy Between PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) was investigated.

Alessandro Candreva

Reviewer

Alessandro Candreva

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Mortality 10 years after percutaneous or surgical revascularization in patients with total coronary artery occlusions