Introduction of drug-eluting stents in the treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions has decreased restenosis rates and repeat revascularizations. Modification of plaque morphology before stenting ...

A distal left main stenosis is located at a bifurcation and increases risk for adverse outcomes following PCI, as do lesions in other bifurcations in the coronary tree. Palmerini et al.

When stenting is used, a major question is whether both the main vessel and the side branch should be stented. Such double stenting is appealing because it produces attractive postprocedural ...