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LEFT MAIN

Left main lesion is at the heart of the controversy between PCI and CABG: review opinions expressed during EuroPCR 2007. The percutaneous approach strategy in the distal LM lesion is also a matter of debate…


3 questions for... Jean Fajadet
Clinique Pasteur
Toulouse, France
An interview by Bernard Chevalier

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Clinical Videos
A strategy for distal LM lesion with trifurcation from the "LM center"
Operators: S.J. Park, Myeong-Ki Hong, Seong Wook Park
(25 min.)

Clinical Case Clinical Case
The role of IVUS in LM PCI
Operators: E. Garcia
(41 min.)

Clinical Case Clinical Case
A new approach for distal LM lesion
Operators: S.J. Park, Seong Wook Park
(51 min.)

Clinical Case Clinical Case

Webcasts
• The percutaneous approach techniques and results
Left main - Speaker: E. Garcia
- webcast
- slides

Left main stenting: current status - Speaker: T. Santoso
- webcast
- slides

 
• The surgical point of view
Patients status and current surgical practice: cardiac surgery registries (Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery) - Speaker: F.W. Mohr
- webcast
- slides


Lectures

• The issue of antiplatelet therapy in the setting of LM PCI

Patients with left main stenosis: can we push the envelope? Interactive debate based on case presentation
A. Pichard


• The different percutaneous approaches

PCI of the left main
P. Ludman


• The current status of surgical revascularisation

How do surgical techniques affect the clinical outcomes?
D. Taggart
Off pump coronary surgery - where are we now?
G. Angelini

EuroIntervention related contents
• Clinical and angiographic outcome of paclitaxel-eluting stent implantation for unprotected left main coronary artery bifurcation narrowing

• Outcome of unprotected left main percutaneous coronary intervention in surgical low-risk, surgical high-risk, and acute myocardial infarction patients

• Sirolimus-Eluting Stents vs Bare Metal Stents for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis

• Drug eluting stents in left main stem stenosis: patients will pay the price

• Revisiting the incidence and temporal distribution of cardiac and sudden death in patients undergoing elective intervention for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis in the drug eluting stent era
A pooled analysis on 340 patients treated at three European referral centres


Related website
A tool that can help you score patient surgical risks: www.euroscore.org