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Review
. 2018 Mar 31;7(7):e008151.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.008151.

Management of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Ronnie Ramadan  1   2   3 , William E Boden  4   5 , Scott Kinlay  4   2   3
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Review

Management of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Ronnie Ramadan et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: coronary artery bypass graft surgery; coronary intervention; coronary revascularization; left main coronary artery disease.

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Figure 1
Proposed algorithm for heart team management of left main coronary artery (LM) disease. CABG indicates coronary artery bypass graft surgery; CTO, chronic total occlusion; DAPT, dual antiplatelet therapy; FFR, fractional flow reserve; IVUS, intravascular ultrasound; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; OMT, optimal medical therapy; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; STS, Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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Figure 2
Step‐by‐step illustration of the double kissing crush 2‐stent bifurcation technique.
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Figure 3
Pooled analyses of randomized controlled trials comparing percutaneous coronary intervention using drug‐eluting stents with coronary artery bypass graft surgery in left main coronary artery revascularization. A, Pooled estimates of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events. B, Pooled estimates of death. C, Pooled estimates of myocardial infarction. D, Pooled estimates of stroke. E, Pooled estimates of all repeat revascularization. CI, confidence interval; RR, relative risk. Please refer to text for complete trial names.
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