What is different in the left main Bifurcation?

Jens Flensted Lassen, MD, PH.D., FESC.

Clinical director of Invasive Cardiology & Acute Cardiac Care. Dept. of Cardiology B, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby.

Aarhus, Denmark.  

What is different in the left main Bifurcation?  

•  Territory  of  supply.  •  The  Aorta-­‐osteal  take-­‐off  of  the  LM  •  Diameter  of  the  LM  •  Length  of  the  LM  •  Diameter  of  LAD  and  CX  •  Angel  between  the  LAD  and  CX  •  The  guideline  recommendaAons  for  surgery  versus  PCI  

Park  SJ,  Park  DW:  Eurointerven4on  Supplement  (2010)  vol.  6  (suppl.  J)  J112-­‐J117  

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