Use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) rather than angiography to guide drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation results in lower rates of stent thrombosis, myocardial infarction (MI), and major adverse ...

The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to guide stent placement in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) leads to better clinical outcomes than use of angiography guidance, according to a ...

Precision angioplasty also improves the accuracy of choosing the right stent size and length. Because the vessel measurements ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The largest randomized trial to directly compare coronary angiography with two kinds of intravascular imaging—one older, one newer—for guiding stent placement and expansion found that ...

Enrolling 3,349 patients, the IVUS sub-study is part of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) ADAPT-DES study (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents), a prospective ...

SAN DIEGO -- Implanting drug-eluting stents under intravascular ultrasound-guided (IVUS) guidance improves outcomes compared with angiography guidance, a randomized trial from China found. The primary ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — Among patients with chronic kidney disease from the ULTIMATE cohort, assignment to IVUS-guided drug-eluting stent implantation was linked to lower rates of target vessel failure compared ...

Berlin, Germany - Balloon angioplasty under intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance appears comparable to stenting at 6 months, a new study shows. However, given the advent of drug-eluting stents, ...

Amsterdam, Netherlands – 27 Aug 2023: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is non-inferior to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to late ...

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume3, Number 2, 2018, pp. 127-136(10); DOI https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 15212/ CVIA. 2017. 0029, Dhruv Mahtta, Ahmed N. Mahmoud, ...

WASHINGTON -- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was as good as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) or angiography for sizing stents but also picked up some complications that the other guidance ...