title: Clinical and procedural evaluation of the Nile Croco® dedicated stent for bifurcations: a single centre experience with the first 151 consecutive non-selected patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the feasibility and safety of the Nile Croco® coronary bifurcation stent system (Minvasys, Gennevilliers, France).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The primary endpoint was to assess the acute device success and angiographic success with the use of the Nile Croco® stent system. Secondary endpoints included in-hospital and six month major cardiac events (MACE).There were 151 consecutive patients enrolled in the Nile Croco Study at Vall Hebrón Hospital. The Nile Croco® stent was successfully implanted in 144 patients (95.4%) and final angiographic success was obtained in 100% of the patients. 138 out of the 151 (91%) patients included have accomplished the six month follow-up. There was one in-hospital MACE in the 151 recruited patients. The MACE rate at six months in the 138 patients with follow-up was 14% and the ischaemia-driven TLR rate was 7.2 %.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of our Nile Croco® Study are the first to demonstrate the safety and high performance of this dedicated stent system for the treatment of bifurcation lesions. The device can be successfully implanted in more than 95% of all cases, with a high procedural success rate and low in-hospital and six month MACE rates.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Vall Hebrón, Hospital Vall Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain. bgb51@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Bruno García
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Del Blanco
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martí
authors.forename: Neus
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bellera
authors.forename: Imanol
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Otaegui
authors.forename: Vicens
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Serra
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: Enric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domingo
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Angel
authors.forename: Jaume
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Candell
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: García-Dorado
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome