title: Percutaneous treatment of aorto-ostial coronary lesions: Current challenges and future directions.
abstract: Flow-limiting aorto-ostial coronary lesions are clinically important because they subtend a large myocardial territory and may induce extensive myocardial ischemia. Diagnosis and treatment of these lesions is challenging and procedural success and clinical outcomes are inferior to non-ostial lesions. The purpose of this review is to summarize current knowledge regarding aorto-ostial percutaneous coronary intervention and to suggest novel approaches for optimizing these procedures.
authors: Department of Cardiology at the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: jafferonen@hotmail.com.
authors: Ronen
authors: R
authors: Jaffe
authors: Department of Cardiology at the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Halon
authors: Department of Cardiology at the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors: Avinoam
authors: A
authors: Shiran
authors: Department of Cardiology at the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors: Ronen
authors: R
authors: Rubinshtein
mesh_terms: D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000639:trends*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Aorto-ostial; Coronary artery disease; Geographic miss; Stent