IVI or Angiography for Complex PCI Guidance?
Viktor Zarev
New follow-up data from the RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial suggests that intravascular imaging continues to provide better clinical outcomes for patients with complex coronary lesions five years after their PCI procedure.
- Intravascular imaging (IVI) refers to catheter-based invasive technologies used to visualize the inside of coronary arteries in real-time.
- The two IVI modalities are intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography, providing cross-sectional images of the vessel wall..