The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
COmplex coronary Bifurcation lesions: RAndomized comparison of a strategy using a dedicated self-expanding biolimus-eluting stent versus a culotte strategy using everolimus-eluting stents: primary results of the COBRA trial
EuroIntervention 2016;11:1457-1467 published online ahead of print May 2015. DOI: 10.4244/EIJY15M05_02
Christophe Dubois1,2*, MD, PhD; Johan Bennett1, MD; Joseph Dens3, MD, PhD; Dries De Cock1, MD; Walter Desmet1,2, MD, PhD; Ann Belmans4, MSc; Giovanni J. Ughi2, PhD; Peter Sinnaeve1,2, MD, PhD; Mathias Vrolix3, MD; Jan D’hooge2, PhD; Tom Adriaenssens1,2, MD, PhD
1. Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3. Department of Cardiology, Oost-Limburg Hospital, Genk, Belgium; 4. Interu
Aims: We aimed to compare healing responses with optical coherence tomography, and clinical and angiographic outcome after treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions with a dedicated stent