Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Protected versus Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: Insights from the VA CART Program.
Pedro Engel GonzalezAnnika HebbeYasin HussainRohan KheraSubhash BanerjeeMary E PlomondonStephen W WaldoSteven E PfauJeptha P CurtisSamit M ShahPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2023)
Veterans undergoing PLM PCI had better one-year outcomes than those undergoing ULM PCI, but in both groups there was a high rate of mortality and MACE at one-year despite a relatively low rate of MI or revascularization.
Keyphrases
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery disease
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- acute myocardial infarction
- antiplatelet therapy
- acute coronary syndrome
- cardiovascular events
- type diabetes
- risk factors
- metabolic syndrome
- cardiovascular disease
- adipose tissue
- aortic stenosis
- glycemic control