Efficacy of plaque debulking for bifurcated or ostial lesions by directional coronary atherectomy prior to second-generation drug eluting stenting.

Maoto HabaraEtsuo TsuchikaneKenya NasuYoshihisa KinoshitaAkira MurataYoriyasu SuzukiYoshiaki KawaseMunenori OkuboHitoshi MatsuoTakahiko Suzuki

Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2019)

DCA before second-generation DES implantation can possibly avoid complex stenting and provide a good mid-term outcome in patients with bifurcated lesions.

Keyphrases

coronary artery disease
antiplatelet therapy
coronary artery
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
percutaneous coronary intervention
squamous cell carcinoma
aortic stenosis
rectal cancer
locally advanced