When IVUS did not outperform angiography for guiding percutaneous interventions in two trials, the results offered more questions than answers.

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Three trials comparing IVUS with angiography for PCI guidance in patients with complex coronary artery disease took many attendees of American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2026 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There have been no head-to-head, outcome-based clinical trials that compare imaging vs. physiology guidance in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients receiving PCI with a drug-eluting stent, use of IVUS was associated with better CV outcomes, both ...

In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients' need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...

In patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided implantation of a drug-eluting stent improved outcomes compared with angiography guidance alone. "Our study ...

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 ...

• At a median follow-up of 2.9 years, primary endpoint events occurred in 33.7% of the IVUS-guided group and 30.9% in the ...

For stenting decisions in intermediate coronary stenosis, fractional flow reserve (FFR) guidance led to outcomes that were similar to those with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance, but with more ...

In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients’ need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...