Francesco Bruno, Ovidio de Filippo, Andrea Sardone, Piera Capranzano, Federico Conrotto, Imad Sheiban, Federico Giacobbe, Claudio Laudani, Francesco Burzotta, Francesco Saia, Javier Escaned, Sergio Raposeiras Roubin, Massimo Mancone, Christian Templin, Alessandro Candreva, Daniela Trabattoni, Wojciech Wanha, Giulio Stefanini, Alaide Chieffo, Bernardo Cortese, Gianni Casella, Wojciech Wojakowski, Francesco Colombo, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Giacomo Boccuzzi, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Mario Iannaccone
INTRODUCTION: The potential benefit on long term outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) on Unprotected Left Main (ULM) driven by IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) remains to be defined. METHODS: IMPACTUS LM-PCI is an observational, multicenter study that enrolled consecutive patients with ULM disease undergoing coronary angioplasty in 13 European high-volume centers from January 2002 to December 2015. Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACEs) a composite of cardiovascular (CV) death, target vessel revascularization (TVR) and myocardial infarction (MI) were the primary endpoints, while its single components along with all cause death the secondary ones...
February 15, 2024: International Journal of Cardiology