[HTML][HTML] Failure of high-flow nasal cannula therapy may delay intubation and increase mortality

BJ Kang, Y Koh, CM Lim, JW Huh, S Baek, M Han… - Intensive care …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Intubation in patients with respiratory failure can be avoided by high-flow nasal
cannula (HFNC) use. However, it is unclear whether waiting until HFNC fails, which would …

Randomized trial of stents versus bypass surgery for left main coronary artery disease: 5-year outcomes of the PRECOMBAT study

JM Ahn, JH Roh, YH Kim, DW Park, SC Yun… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Background: In a previous randomized trial, we found that percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) was not inferior to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for the …

[HTML][HTML] Korean guidelines for the appropriate use of cardiac CT

YJ Kim, HS Yong, SM Kim, JA Kim… - Korean journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of cardiac CT has provided a non-invasive alternative to
echocardiography, exercise electrocardiogram, and invasive angiography and cardiac CT …

Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease–5-Year Outcome From …

H Shiomi, T Morimoto, Y Furukawa, Y Nakagawa… - Circulation …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Background: Studies evaluating long-term (≥ 5 years) outcome of percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) compared with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with …

Temporal trends in revascularization strategy and outcomes in left main coronary artery stenosis: data from the ASAN Medical Center-Left MAIN Revascularization …

SJ Park, JM Ahn, YH Kim, DW Park… - Circulation …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Changes over time in revascularization strategies and outcomes among
patients with unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis remain largely unknown …

[PDF][PDF] Acute myocardial infarction due to left main coronary artery disease in men and women: does ST-segment elevation matter?

M Sadowski, W Gutkowski, G Raczyński… - Archives of Medical …, 2015 - termedia.pl
Results: Isolated ULMCA disease was more frequent in women and multivessel disease
was more frequent in men in the NSTEMI group. The incidence of cardiogenic shock or …

[HTML][HTML] One-stent versus two-stent techniques for distal unprotected left main coronary artery bifurcation lesions

J Zhang, S Liu, T Geng, Z Xu - International Journal of Clinical and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: To assess the clinical outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with
single-stent versus double-stents implantation in distal unprotected left main coronary artery …

First generation versus new generation drug‐eluting stents for the treatment of ostial/midshaft lesions in unprotected left main coronary artery: The Milan and New …

T Naganuma, A Chieffo, K Takagi… - Catheterization and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To compare the clinical outcomes following unprotected left main coronary artery
(ULMCA) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of ostial/midshaft lesions between first …

[HTML][HTML] Early outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in patients with significant Left Main Stem stenosis at a tertiary cardiac care center

M Sher-i-Murtaza, MAR Baig… - Pakistan Journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: Primary objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of significant left main
stem (LMS) stenosis on the early outcome of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of bare-metal stent and drug-eluting stent for the treatment of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected left main …

CH Lai, WL Lee, SH Sung, PF Hsu, YH Chen… - Acta Cardiologica …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become an alternative treatment
for left main (LM) coronary artery disease. The aim of our study was to compare long-term …