Does intravascular imaging guidance improve 1-year clinical outcomes compared to angiographic guidance alone in patients undergoing PCI of severely calcified lesions?
Intravascular imaging guidance is associated with improved 1-year clinical outcomes compared to angiography alone during PCI of severely calcified lesions, with comparable efficacy between OCT and IVUS.
IVI guidance during PCI of severely calcified lesions was associated with improved 1-year clinical outcomes compared with angiographic guidance alone, whether OA or BA was used for vessel preparation prior to drug-eluting stent placement. The adjusted difference in 1-year TVF rates were not significantly different with optical coherence tomographic guidance and IVUS guidance.
Stone et al. (Wed,) studied this question.