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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.29.e100555</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">100555</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Interventional Cardiology (интервенционална кардиология)</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Immediate outcome after percutaneous coronary revascularization in STEMI for left main coronary artery lesions</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zheleva-Kyuchukova</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">iva.jeleva@gmail.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4644-3531</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Gelev</surname>
            <given-names>V.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">vlgelev@abv.bg</email>
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        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Acibadem City Clinic UMHAT Tokuda, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Acibadem City Clinic UMHAT Tokuda</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding authors: I. Zheleva-Kyuchukova (<email xlink:type="simple">iva.jeleva@gmail.com</email>), V. Gelev (<email xlink:type="simple">vlgelev@abv.bg</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Robert J. Gil</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>76</fpage>
      <lpage>85</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/1D3D0BF5-897B-5431-91DD-F7C679FADF0D">1D3D0BF5-897B-5431-91DD-F7C679FADF0D</uri>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>14</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>I. Zheleva-Kyuchukova, V. Gelev</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p><bold>Background:</bold> Acute coronary syndrome with ST elevation (STEMI) with a lesion in the left main coronary artery (LMCA) occurs infrequently; moreover, patients are at very high risk for mortality. However, limited data are available regarding the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of patients presenting with LM-STEMI treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (LM-PCI STEMI). Therefore, we aimed to evaluate patient clinical and procedure factors associated with in-hospital outcomes in LM-STEMI patients undergoing PPCI in a real-life registry. <bold>Material and methods:</bold> From 439 consecutive patients with LM disease treated with PCI in the prospective single-center Acibadem City Clinic UMHAT Tokuda registry enrolled between March 2013 and October 2022, we identifi ed 35 LM-PCI STEMI patients (8%). We analyzed baseline demographic, coronary lesion characteristics, procedural details and success, and in-hospital mortality. <bold>Results:</bold> Among 35 LM-STEMI patients, the mean age was 66.0 ± 16 years, and 69% were male – forty percent presented with cardiogenic shock (CS). The risk profi le of the overall study population was relatively high (mean Euro Score (ES) was 19.1 ± 22, while 54.3% were high risk with ES &gt; 6). Radial access had a remarkably high proportion (68.6%), regardlessof coronary anatomic complexity being intermediate to high (mean Syntax Score (SS) was 29.5 ± 8,15, 42,9% had SS ≥ 32). The distal LM bifurcation was most commonly involved (82.9%), yet the provisional strategy (85.7%) was most often employed during emergent PCI. The observed overall in-hospital mortality rate was 25.7% (64.3% in pts presenting with CS vs. 23.5% without CS, p = 0.0166). <bold>Conclusion:</bold> STEMI from culprit LMCA lesion is associated with signifi cant mortality. Emergent LM PCI in unselected patients, including cardiogenic shock, is an appropriate and feasible treatment option for this high-risk group, with acceptable mortality and in-hospital survival rates.</p>
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