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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.26.e54126</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">54126</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Interventional Cardiology (интервенционална кардиология)</subject>
          <subject>Ischemic Heart Disease (исхемична болест на сърцето)</subject>
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        <article-title>Is left main percutaneous coronary intervention justified in the presence of concomitant complex coronary artery disease – immediate and remote results – single Bulgarian center experience</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zheleva-Kyuchukova</surname>
            <given-names>Ivayla</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">iva.jeleva@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Gelev</surname>
            <given-names>Valeri</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Acibadem City Clinic Tokuda Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ivayla Zheleva-Kyuchukova (<email xlink:type="simple">iva.jeleva@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Dobrin Vasilev</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>09</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>43</fpage>
      <lpage>51</lpage>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Ivayla Zheleva-Kyuchukova, Valeri 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>Revascularization in patients with severe stenosis of left coronary artery (LCAS) trunk signiﬁ cantly improves their prognosis. Modern clinical studies, registries and meta-analyses have identiﬁ ed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of LCAS as a safe alternative to aorto-coronary bypass (ACB) in patients with low and intermediate lesion complexity. <bold>Aims:</bold> To conﬁ rm the safety and effectiveness of PCI and implantation of second generation drug eluting stent (DES) in patients with unprotected LCAS and concomitant complex coronary pathology. <bold>Material and Methods:</bold> For the period March 2013–October 2018 we performed 225 PCIs of patients with LCAS. 170 of patients who received PCI were divided into 2 groups, according to their SS-1 (ST elevation excluded). We analyzed the major adverse cardio-vascular events (MACE – all-cause mortality, cardiac mortality, stroke and ischemia driven TLR) rate and time-to-ﬁ rst MACE during follow up. <bold>Results:</bold> 103 patients had SS-I &lt; 32 and 67 patients had SS-I ≥ 32 and their mean age was 67,25 ± 11,03. The median follow-up was 26,6 ± 19,1 months. MACE rate was 12,4% and there was no signiﬁ cance between groups (p = 0,118). <bold>Conclusions: </bold>PCI of unprotected LCAS has high procedural success rate and good mid-term results, even in pts with complex anatomy. High anatomical complexity of coronary lesions deﬁ ned by SS-I ≥ 32 is not predictive for poor clinical outcome after PCI.</p>
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