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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2024

Current Challenges in Coronary Bifurcation Interventions.

Panayot Panayotov, Niya Mileva, Dobrin Vassilev

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Double-Kissing Crush Versus Provisional Stenting for Coronary Bifurcations: A 1-Year Follow-up Study in Vietnam.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Panayot PanayotovDepartment of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Endocrinology, Medical Faculty, Medical University of Pleven, 5800 Pleven, Bulgaria.
Niya MilevaMedica Cor Hospital, 7013 Ruse, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-4666-0181
Dobrin VassilevMedica Cor Hospital, 7013 Ruse, Bulgaria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronary bifurcation lesions account for a significant proportion of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Interventional treatment of coronary bifurcations is related to significant technical challenges, high complication rates, and worse angiographic and long-term clinical outcomes. This review covers the specific features and structure of coronary bifurcation and explores the main challenges in the interventional treatment of these lesions. This review evaluates various methodologies designed to address these lesions, considering factors such as plaque distribution and bifurcation geometry. It also emphasizes the limitations associated with current techniques. A novel combined optimization approach applied in the interventional treatment of coronary bifurcation may offer superior procedural and long-term outcomes. This combined technique could potentially address the drawbacks of each method, providing a more effective solution for optimizing stent placement in bifurcation lesions. Refining and evaluating these combined techniques is essential for improving clinical outcomes in patients with bifurcation lesions.

Indexed as

Percutaneous Coronary InterventionCoronary AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseCoronary VesselsHumansStentsTreatment Outcomecoronary bifurcationoptimization techniquepercutaneous coronary intervention

Identifiers

PMID39336480
PMCPMC11434469

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