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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016 Mar 1;67(8):951–960. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.10.103

TABLE 2.

Procedural Characteristics of Left Main Coronary Artery Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Location of LM stenosis
 LM only 43 (22.9)
 LM and 1 vessel 54 (28.7)
 LM and 2 vessels 53 (28.2)
 LM and 3 vessels 38 (20.2)

RCA disease 69 (33.8)

Location of LM stent
 Ostial 110 (53.9)
 Nonostial 94 (46.1)

LM bifurcation stenting 103 (50.5)

Treatment of RCA 29 (14.2)

Stent type
 BMS 29 (14.2)
 DES 149 (73.0)
 Both DES and BMS 2 (1.0)

Percentage stenosis 67.4 ± 20.8

Lesion length, mm 12.1 ± 8.2

Stent length, mm 18.8 ± 7.5

Stent diameter, mm 3.6 ± 1.0

Number of lesions stented 1.6 ± 1.3

Number of vessels stented 1.7 ± 0.9

Number of stents per lesion 1.1 ± 0.3

Values are n (%) or mean ± SD.

BMS = bare-metal stent; DES = drug-eluting stent; LM = Left main coronary artery; RCA = right coronary artery.