使OCT:ILUMIEN IV

Ziad A Ali1, Ulf Landmesser2, Akiko Maehara3

  • 1St Francis Hospital and Heart Center, Roslyn, New York, USA; Clinical Trials Center, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York, USA; New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, USA.

概括

与血管学指导相比,光学连贯性断层扫描 (OCT) 引导的复杂病变的皮肤冠状动脉干预 (PCI) 改善了支架区域,减少了主要心血管不良事件 (MACE). 然而,目标容器故障 (TVF) 率在各组之间是相似的.

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