Impact of Rotational Atherectomy on Heavily Calcified, Unprotected Left Main Disease

Autor: Hisaaki Ishiguro, Yusuke Watanabe, Kensuke Takagi, Naoyuki Kurita, Sunao Nakamura, Yusuke Fujino, Takahiro Matsumoto, Satoru Mitomo, Shotarou Nakamura, Satoko Tahara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyoshi Kawamoto, Tomohiko Sato, Hiroto Yabushita, Takayuki Warisawa, Toru Naganuma, Koji Hozawa, Keiko Fukino, Kenichi Karube
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Circulation Journal. 78:1867-1872
ISSN: 1347-4820
1346-9843
Popis: Background:There is little data on percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using rotational atherectomy (Rota) for severely calcified unprotected left main (ULM) lesions.Methods and Results:Between January 2005 and August 2011, 64 consecutive patients who underwent drug-eluting stent implantation using Rota were retrospectively evaluated. Of these, 54.7% and 20.3% patients had diabetes and were undergoing hemodialysis (HD), respectively. The mean EuroSCORE and SYNTAX score was 5.6 and 35.4, respectively. Procedural success, defined as residual stenosis
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