Meta-analysis and systematic review of intravascular ultrasound versus angiography-guided drug eluting stent implantation in left main coronary disease in 4592 patients

Table 1 Study design, baseline characteristics of the included studies

First author	Year	Design	Sample size	F/U (months)	Age (years)	Male	Smoker	DM	Hyperlipidemia	Hypertension	Renal failure	LVEF %	Previous PCI	Previous MI
Agostoni et al. [21]	2005	Observational Unadjusted	24/34	14	62/64	15/25	4/7	9/10	15/23	14/20	–	52/44^a	12/17^a	9/17
Park et al. [22]	2009	Observational Adjusted	145/145	36	64/65^a	102/102	28/30	49/49	42/44	86/85	110/112	60/61	–	10/11
De La Torre Hernandez et al. [23]	2014	Observational Adjusted	505/505	36	66/67	404/397	148/161	183/175	314/284	342/325	35/31	55/55	111/107	122/130
Gao et al. [24]	2014	Observational Unadjusted	337/679	12	66/67	274/526	111/230	109/232	228/487	244/489	88/214	59/57^a	60/119	60/123
Tan et al. [25]	2015	RCT	61/62	24	77/76	38/43	27/29	21/18	–	25/29	–	55/53	–	10/13
Kim et al. [26]	2017	Observational Adjusted	122/74	36	62/65^a	95/53	60/37	47/33	28/17	75/54	10/7^b	55/49^a	9/14^a	4/5
Tian et al. [16]	2017	Observational Adjusted	713/1186	36	60/60	576/920	256/316	173/314	387/597	400/654	–	63.2/62.9	165/270	163/293

Data are presented as IVUS-guided/angiography-guided PCI with DES for left main lesions
DM diabetes mellitus, F/U follow-up, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, MI myocardial infarction, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, RCT randomized controlled trial
^ap < 0.05
^bChronic kidney disease

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