EBC - ON DEMAND
IVUS/OCT for decision making between provisional and two-stent strategy?
European Bifurcation Club 2010 – EBC 2010 – Budapest, Hungary
Imaging session
IVUS/OCT for decision making between provisional and two-stent strategy?
Author: Wim J. van der Giessen, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam
SUMMARY
- OCT confirms shear stress related theory of early development of lesions
- IVUS provides important additional information
- Medina angiographic classification is limited to guide a priori therapeutic strategy
- A NORDIC type of study, including routine IVUS examination pre-intervention, seems a useful approach