Key result
Simplified calcified coronary bifurcation treatment prioritizes provisional stenting and reserves two-stent strategies for complex cases.
Why the study?
Calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions remain challenging for interventional cardiologists, and evidence regarding their treatment is minimal.
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This review outlines a simplified approach to managing calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions, highlighting provisional stenting as the default strategy and introducing the BifurcAID mobile application for case-based guidance.
Calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions (CBL) remain a challenge for the interventional cardiologist. Evidence regarding treatment of CBL is minimal. Optimal plaque modification is the most important step prior to stent deployment. Provisional stenting is the preferred strategy for most bifurcation lesions. However, two-stent strategy should be considered for BL with compromised large SB (>2.5 mm) supplying a large territory, >70% SB stenosis and lesions more than 5 mm long. In this contemporary review article, we present a simplified approach to treating CBL and demonstrate the approach to specific case examples using our newly developed mobile application, BifurcAID.
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Patel et al. (2020) conducted a review in Calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions. Management strategies for calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions was evaluated. A simplified approach to treating calcified coronary artery bifurcation lesions emphasizes optimal plaque modification and provisional stenting, with a two-stent strategy reserved for complex cases.
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