Is it time for elective left main percutaneous coronary intervention to become 'main stream'?

作     者：Joshua Cohen Andrew D.Michaels 

作者机构：Division of Cardiology University of California San Francisco San Francisco CA 94143-0124 USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Geriatric Cardiology》 (老年心脏病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2006年第3卷第1期

页      面：57-58页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：left IVUS Is it time for elective left main percutaneous coronary intervention to become main stream time 

摘      要： Left main (LM) stenting is considered by many to be one of the last frontiers of interventional cardiology. Beginning with the VA cooperative study published in 1976 demonstrating a mortality benefit for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), i the standard of care for treatment of left main coronary artery disease has been *** most recent 2005 update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI Practice Guidelines on PCI 2 again notes that CABG using IMA grafting is the gold standard for treatment of unprotected left main disease and has proven benefit on long-term outcomes.……