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Clinical and Angiographic Outcome After Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents in Bifurcation Lesions With the Crush Stent Technique

Importance of Final Kissing Balloon Post-Dilation

Lei Ge, MD^_*,, Flavio Airoldi, MD^_*, Ioannis Iakovou, MD^_*, John Cosgrave, MD^_*, Iassen Michev, MD^_*, Giuseppe M. Sangiorgi, MD^_*, Matteo Montorfano, MD^_*, Alaide Chieffo, MD^_*, Mauro Carlino, MD^_*, Nicola Corvaja, MD^_* and Antonio Colombo, MD, FACC^_*,_*

^_* EMO Centro Cuore Columbus and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Department of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Restenosis rate and late lumen loss of drug-eluting stent implantation in bifurcation lesions with the "crush" stent technique. Black bars = without kissing balloon after dilation; open bars = kissing balloon after dilation.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier curve of survival free from target lesion revascularization (TLR) during nine-month follow-up.