Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents in unprotected left main versus non-left main native coronary artery disease: results from the prospective multicenter German DES.DE registry.
Unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease is considered an indication for surgical revascularization. However, refined percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) technology and modern drug-eluting stents (DES) render the ULMCA a target for interventional treatment. ⋯ Data collected in DES.DE revealed that ULMCA PCI with DES result in similar TVR rates as compared to PCI in nLMCA. Moreover, modern DES have not offset the higher comorbidity index and higher procedure-related complication rate with PCI of ULMCA lesions.
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This study aimed to identify predictors of mortality in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) undergoing in-hospital extracorporeal life support system (ECLS) treatment. ⋯ A door-to-ECLS implantation time <30 min significantly improves 30-day outcomes in patients with OHCA.