How Should You Treat/Assess Non-culprit Disease? - Dr. Justin Davies

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Summary

Justin Davies details the assessment and treatment of bystander CAD in ACS


  • The negative prognostic impact of multi vessel disease in STEMI
  • Theoretical pros and cons of both treating and deferring non-culprit vessels in ACS
  • The concept of "vulnerable plaque"
  • Previous guidelines recommendations strongly discouraged treating non-culprit arteries in STEMI (class III recommendation in 2013); now upgraded to Class IIb
  • Summary of RCT evidence available on this topic: PRAMI, CvLPRIT, DANAMI
  • Intracoronary imaging with IVUS and OCT to characterise plaque composition, vessel characteristics and luminal area
  • Future RCTs currently ongoing that will provide more data to guide us in this field

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