Long Stent Implantation on the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery at a Follow-Up of More Than Five Years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stent implantation represents the standard of care in coronary intervention. While a short stent implanted on a focal lesion located on the left anterior descending artery (LAD) seems a reasonable alternative to an internal mammary implant, the same for long stents is still debated.

Methods

We reported the long-term data of 531 consecutive patients who underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with long stents in two highly specialized centres. The main inclusion criteria were the implantation of stents longer than 30 mm on the LAD and a minimum follow-up (FU) of five years. The primary endpoint was mortality, and the secondary endpoints were any myocardial infarction (MI), target vessel and lesion revascularization (TVR and TLR, respectively), and stent

SUBMITTER: Sticchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10779530 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature