Left Main Coronary Stenosis
Assessment of Left Main Coronary Stenosis by Transesophageal Echocardiography
... Tan WA et al. ( 37 ) on behalf of ULTIMA investigators reported long term clinical outcome after PCI of unprotected LMCA in 279 patients. Thirty (13.7%) patients died in hospital, and the rest were followed up for a ...
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Comparison of Bypass Surgery with Drug Eluting Stents in Diabetic Patients with Left Main Coronary Stenosis
... of coronary stenting and coro- nary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) on left main coronary artery (LMCA) ...LMCA stenosis who underwent drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation and 116 pa- ...
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Long-term results of surgical angioplasty for left main coronary artery stenosis: 18-year follow-up
... The left ventricle was vented through the right superior pulmon- ary ...The main pulmonary artery was divided in 12 patients ...the left in 12 other pa- ...right coronary ost- ...
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Percutaneous intervention versus coronary artery bypass graft surgery in left main coronary artery stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... treating left main CAD, our and a few other meta- analyses [44] evaluated the composite safety endpoint of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, or ...
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Does Right Coronary Artery Stenosis Increase Morbi Mortality in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease?
... LMCA stenosis can safely await surgery without undergoing emergency ...LMCA stenosis and did not found any difference between the patients who were operated within 7 days and more than 7 ...LMCA ...
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Unexpected normal left ventricular systolic function after total chronic occlusion of left main coronary artery and stenosis of right coronary artery: a case report and review of the literature
... The treatment mainly involves myocardial revasculari- zation techniques, namely CABG and PCI [4]. In our case, we opted for surgery for several reasons; we cite the young age of the patient, the complexity of the cor- ...
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Drug eluting stents or coronary artery bypass grafting for unprotected left main coronary artery disease: a meta analysis of four randomized trials and seventeen observational studies
... versus coronary artery bypass grafting for unprotected left main coronary artery disease: 5-year results from the MAIN-COMPARE (Revascularization for Unprotected Left Main ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of left ventricular longitudinal function by speckle tracking echocardiography to predict significant coronary artery stenosis. A systematic review
... specific coronary artery territories, although there is individual variability in the coronary blood supply to myocardial ...significant stenosis in the three main coronary arteries ...
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Comparison of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
... EuroScore, left ventricle ejection fraction (EF), the severity of LM stenosis and stent dimentions be- tween groups, the variables were checked for normality of distribution (Shapiro-Wilks test), and means ...
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A Missed Malignant Right Coronary Artery Anomaly Detected Post-Cardiac Event in an Adult Patient
... percutaneous coronary intervention. Coronary angiography identified a RCA arising from the left coronary cusp superior to the origin of the left main coronary artery ...
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Case Report Negative D-dimer in idiopathic pulmonary vein thrombosis: a case report and literature review
... a coronary CTA incidentally found part of a filling defect in left lower pulmo- nary vein (LLPV) extending into the left atrium suggesting a thrombus, with moderate stenosis of the left ...
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Hemodynamic impacts of left coronary stenosis : a patient-specific analysis
... Current research studies have demonstrated that low WSS distributions were associated with athero- sclerotic progression, and high WSS was regarded as a contributor to plaque rupture and thrombosis in atherosclerosis ...
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Key words
... isolated coronary artery bypass ...days, left main coronary artery stenosis of more than 50% and emergency surgery in Group 1 were higher than in Group 2 (p < ...
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Isolated Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis after Thoracic Radiation Therapy: To Operate or Not to Operate
... including coronary artery disease, which can present in patients with few or no traditional cardiac risk ...induced coronary artery disease in a 60-year-old female with a history of stage IIIA nonsmall cell ...
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Recurrent Syncope Attributed to Left Main Coronary Artery Severe Stenosis
... acute coronary syndrome (ACS) rarely manifest as recurrent syncope due to malignant ventricular ...intervals. Coronary angiograph showed 90% stenosis in left main coronary artery ...
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“Kurdistan” Technique for the Treatment of Unprotected Trifurcation Left Main Stem Coronary Artery Lesion: Case Report
... the MAIN-COMPARE (Revasculari- zation for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis: Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty Versus Surgical Revascularization) ...
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Angiographically borderline left main coronary artery lesions: correlation of transthoracic doppler echocardiography and intravascular ultrasound: a pilot study
... Assessing borderline coronary stenosis is an ongoing challenge in invasive cardiology. The optimal techniques are IVUS and FFR measurements, however these techni- ques are extremely expensive, not widely ...
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Incremental value of preprocedural coronary computed tomographic angiography to classical coronary angiography for prediction of PCI complexity in left main stenosis
... of coronary plaques, which are considered as markers of vulnerability—low density atheroma, necrotic core or ...with coronary plaque signifi- cantly associated with the need of complex revasculari- zation ...
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Intravascular ultrasound-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in left main coronary bifurcation lesions: a review
... diameter stenosis) may provide further information on the role of two-stent techniques in this subset of ...intra- coronary imaging is recommended to ensure the adequate stent and vessel expansion in all ...
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Surgical reconstruction of the left main coronary artery with patch-angioplasty
... Conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been established as the treatment of choice for left main coronary artery (LMCA) stenosis However, the conventional grafting ...
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