August 30, 2023- Abbott announced data from the first-of-its-kind ILUMIEN IV OPTIMAL PCI (ILUMIEN IV) clinical study, a randomized global imaging trial. The study found that during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), guidance with optical coherence tomography (OCT) compared to angiography helps physicians achieve improved stent expansion for a greater minimal stent area (MSA). According to the study, OCT guidance during PCI is associated with a lower risk of stent thrombosis (ST), a potentially fatal complication of PCI procedures.
The results of ILUMIEN IV were presented as a late-breaking clinical trial at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 25-28, 2023) and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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