Impact of an optical coherence tomography guided approach in acute coronary syndromes: A propensity matched analysis from the international FORMIDABLE-CARDIOGROUP IV and USZ registry.
Mario IannacconeFabrizio D'AscenzoAntonio H FrangiehGiampaolo NiccoliFabrizio UgoGiacomo BoccuzziMaurizio BertainaMassimo ManconeAntonio MontefuscoNicolas AmabileGennaro SardellaPascal MotreffKonstantinos ToutouzasFrancesco ColomboRoberto GarboGiuseppe Biondi-ZoccaiCorrado TamburinoPierluigi OmedèClaudio MorettiMaurizio D'amicoGeraud SouteyrandPascal MeieirThomas F LüscherFiorenzo GaitaChristian TemplinPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2016)
An OCT-guided approach reduced the number of stents used, number of patients treated with more than one stent, while there was no statistically significant difference in clinical endpoints while most of them were numerically lower, including stent thrombosis rates. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.