Among practitioners who did use IVUS, they did so for a mean of 13.4% of their cases but just a median of 5.4%, meaning that most operators fell at the lower end of the spectrum. Another study by the ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Mishra P. IVUS saves the day! Presented at: TCT 2022. Boston, MA. For PCI in complex lesions, both the operator’s lifetime experience and the use of IVUS to guide the ...

No matter how you look at it, guiding percutaneous coronary interventions to treat complex lesions with optical coherence tomography (OCT) or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) produces similar results ...

A novel study conducted by a Japanese multicenter registry has revealed the significant benefits of using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in coronary intervention procedures. The comprehensive ...

The IVUS-ACS trial included 3,505 patients with ACS referred for PCI using a second-generation drug-eluting stent. Participants were randomly assigned to either IVUS- or angiography-guided PCI.

One-year success rates from angioplasty procedures to open clogged arteries in the legs were significantly higher among patients whose procedures were guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS ...

Serial studies using IVUS enable assessment of the progression or regression of coronary atherosclerosis by visualizing the occurrence of atheroma in the vessel wall. A previous study using IVUS ...

Intravascular ultrasound is the preferred imaging modality for a number of procedures conducted on the circulatory system, including some procedures performed in the peripheral vasculature, but ...

Co summarized the role of Intravascular Ultrasound in a shifting Drug Eluting Stent market. Use of DES has decreased from 89% of PCIs in the U.S. down to an estimated 70% over the past year ...