Matthew Ryan, Saad M Ezad, Ian Webb, Peter D O'Kane, Matthew Dodd, Richard Evans, Lynn Laidlaw, Sohail Q Khan, Roshan Weerackody, Alan Bagnall, Vasileios F Panoulas, Haseeb Rahman, Julian W Strange, Farzin Fath-Ordoubadi, Stephen P Hoole, Rod H Stables, Nick Curzen, Tim Clayton, Divaka Perera
INTRODUCTION: Percutaneous coronary intervention for complex coronary disease is associated with a high risk of cardiogenic shock. This can cause harm and limit the quality of revascularization achieved, especially when left ventricular function is impaired at the outset. Elective percutaneous left ventricular unloading is increasingly used to mitigate adverse events in patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention, but this strategy has fiscal and clinical costs and is not supported by robust evidence...
February 27, 2024: Circulation. Cardiovascular Interventions