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SUBMITTER: van der Heijden LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4759225 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Heijden Liefke C LC Kok Marlies M MM Lam Ming Kai MK Danse Peter W PW Schramm Alexander R AR Jessurun Gillian A J GA Tjon Joe Gin R Melvyn RM van Houwelingen K Gert KG Hautvast Raymond W M RW Linssen Gerard C M GC Sen Hanim H Löwik Marije M MM IJzerman Maarten J MJ Doggen Carine J M CJ von Birgelen Clemens C
Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society 20150902 3
<h4>Background</h4>Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in bifurcated lesions with second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) was associated with increased myocardial infarction (MI) rates. Flexible stent designs that accommodate well to vessel tapering may be of benefit in challenging anatomies such as bifurcated target lesions, but so far data are scarce.<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed the 2-year follow-up data of the DUTCH PEERS (TWENTE II) trial, which randomized 1811 all-comer patients to ...[more]