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Planning Coronary Intervention: The “Golden Rules”—Patient Checklist and Troubleshooting

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Several clinical and hemodynamic variables potentially factor in the immediate post-procedural and long-term outcome following percutaneous coronary intervention. The proper identification and definition of risk is a crucial prerequisite to implement adequate supportive measures and potentially avoid procedural complications. Discriminating coronary lesions based on their complexity has important implications for procedural planning and to predict (and prevent) the onset of procedural complications. However, the characteristics of a coronary lesion should be contextualized with the clinical presentation and patients’ risk profile to get a 360° vision of PCI complexity.

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Buccheri, S., Capodanno, D. (2018). Planning Coronary Intervention: The “Golden Rules”—Patient Checklist and Troubleshooting. In: Myat, A., Clarke, S., Curzen, N., Windecker, S., Gurbel, P.A. (eds) The Interventional Cardiology Training Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71635-0_8

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