Left Main Coronary Revascularization

Bernardo Cortese is an interventional cardiologist, and Director of Cardiology at San Carlo Clinic in Milano. He is an expert in the areas of drug-coated balloons, bioresorbable scaffolds, antithrombotics, optical coherence tomography, and left main coronary revascularization.  Dr Cortese has performed more than 3000 coronary and peripheral percutaneous interventions as first operator. He is also consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Gruppo San Donato for peripheral and structural heart interventions. He is President of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Ricerca e Innovazione Cardiovascolare, a research institution based in Milano. He is Coordinator of the International Fellowship Program-European Society of Cardiology (ESC), since 2013, and is Coordinator of Clinical & Scientific Research at San Carlo Clinic. He is involved in several educational programs, including the “DEB School”, and he is author of more than 300 publications indexed in Pubmed.

1       Historical background of left main stem revascularization.- 2 Anatomical and pathophysiological considerations on the left main coronary artery.- 3 CABG vs. PCI for left main revascularization.- 4 CABG should be the first option for left main disease- a surgical perspective.- 5 Now, PCI should be the first option for left main disease- an interventional cardiologist's perspective.- 6 Which device for left main PCI? A description of available devices.- 7 Which interventional technique for left main PCI.- 8 Which surgical technique for left main coronary artery bypass?.- 9 Preoperative and postoperative IVUS assessment of the left main.- 10 Preoperative functional assessment of the left main and postoperative side branch evaluation.- 11 Is there a role for OCT for left main assessment before and after PCI?.- 12 The role of intravascular imaging for intraprocedural and post-procedural evaluation of the left main undergone PCI.- 13 Follow up of leftmain patients treated with PCI or CABG.