When IVUS did not outperform angiography for guiding percutaneous interventions in two trials, the results offered more questions than answers.
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Three trials comparing IVUS with angiography for PCI guidance in patients with complex coronary artery disease took many attendees of American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2026 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . IVUS-guided PCI reduced risk for target vessel failure for patients with ACS vs. angiography-guided PCI. Lower ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There have been no head-to-head, outcome-based clinical trials that compare imaging vs. physiology guidance in ...
In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients' need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...
ATLANTA -- The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes resulted in better outcomes compared with ...
• At a median follow-up of 2.9 years, primary endpoint events occurred in 33.7% of the IVUS-guided group and 30.9% in the ...
For the first time, intravascular imaging-guided coronary stenting was associated with better survival and reduced myocardial infarction (MI) in a meta-analysis powered to detect these benefits ...
A new network analysis adds yet more evidence that PCI performed with angiography alone is inferior to procedures performed either with adjunctive intravascular imaging or invasive functional tests.
With respect to prevention of important clinical events, including cardiac death, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) under optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance performs similarly to PCI ...
In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients’ need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...