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ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2024

Long-term outcomes of IVUS-guided and angiography-guided drug-eluting stent implantation for left main coronary artery disease: a retrospective consort study.

Qing Yang, Xiaoyi Ma, Yuexi Wang

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  1. Comparison of Procedural and Clinical Outcomes of Angiography- Versus Imaging-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Intravascular Lithotripsy.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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Qing YangDepartment of Emergency Cardiovascular Medicine, Inner Mongolian People Hospital, Hohhot, 010000, China.
Xiaoyi MaDepartment of cardiovascular medicine, Dalat people's Hospital, Erdos, 014300, China.
Yuexi WangDepartment of cardiovascular medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, No. 1, Tongdao North Road, Hohhot, 010000, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. drwangyuexi@163.com.

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backgroundIn patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease (ULMCAD), this study compared the long-term prognosis of drug-eluting stent insertion guided by intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) vs. angiography. PATIENTS AND

methodsThis retrospective consort investigation was performed in December 2021. This analysis included 199 patients who underwent IVUS-guided (IVUS group, n = 81) or angiography-guided (angiography group, n = 118) drug-eluting stent implantation at the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University between September 2013 and September 2018. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were defined as cardiovascular death, sudden cardiac death, myocardial infarction.

resultsThe IVUS group had considerably lower proportions of MACE within 1 year postoperatively (P = 0.002) and cardiac mortality within 3 years postoperatively (P = 0.018) compared to the angiography group. However, after adjusting for confounding variables, the hazard ratio for 3-year cardiac mortality was similar between the two groups (P = 0.28). In the IVUS group, there was considerably greater minimum lumen diameter (MLD) (P = 0.046), and reduced frequencies of target vessel restenosis (P < 0.050) and myocardial infarction (MI) (P = 0.024) compared to the angiography group. Cox regression analysis for 3-year cardiac mortality found that MSD was independently associated with low cardiac mortality (HR = 0.1, 95% CI: 0.01-14.92, P = 0.030).

conclusionIVUS-guided drug-eluting stent implantation may lead to better long-term prognosis in patients with ULMCAD, and MSD may be a predictor for lower cardiac mortality.

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Coronary AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseDrug-Eluting StentsUltrasonography, InterventionalAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPercutaneous Coronary InterventionRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAdverse cardiac eventsDrug-eluting stentIntravascular ultrasoundLeft main coronary arteryMinimum stent diameterUnprotected left main coronary artery disease

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