ArticleCardiovascular intervention and therapeutics2026
Impact of stent size selection during a single stenting with kissing balloon inflation for left main bifurcation lesions.
Article in Cardiovascular intervention and therapeutics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
21 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Due to the substantial discrepancy in vessel diameter between the proximal and distal segments, appropriate stent size selection is important in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the left main bifurcation (LMB). Inadequate stent expansion in both the main trunk and daughter branches after kissing balloon inflation (KBI) may contribute to adverse clinical outcomes. We investigated the relationship between stent size selection and vessel dilation in the distal main vessel (DMV) and side branch (SB). We analyzed 80 cases of single stenting with KBI under optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance for LMB at the Yamaguchi University Hospital and in the 3D-OCT bifurcation registry. Cases were divided into large and small size stent groups based on whether the stent size exceeded or fell below the average of the distal and proximal reference diameters (AvRD). The percentages of ostial stenosis (%OS) in the DMV and SB, along with incomplete stent apposition (ISA) at the bifurcation segment derived by OCT, were compared between the groups. The large size stent group exhibited better dilation in both the DMV and SB compared to the small size stent group (DMV%OS: 4.8 ± 9.3% vs. 9.7 ± 7.8%, P = 0.03; SB%OS: 14.4 ± 10.1% vs. 22.1 ± 12.3%, P = 0.004). There was no significant difference in the incidence of ISA at the bifurcation segment between the two groups (large size stent group:11.4 ± 9.2% vs. small size stent group:14.4 ± 15.7%, P = 0.29). Selecting a stent size larger than the AvRD may be associated with optimal ostium dilatation in both the DMV and SB of the LMB.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42501240What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.