A journal article titled (b)(6).Was submitted for review.The aim of this study was to assess the impact of chronic kidney disease (ckd) on clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) for unprotected left main distal bifurcation lesions (ulmd) in diabetes mellitus (dm) patients, comparing to those patients without ckd.The primary endpoint was target lesion failure (tlf).Tlf was defined as a composite of cardiac death, target lesion revascularization (tlr) for lm-lad and/or left circumflex coronary arteries, stent thrombosis (st) and myocardial infarction (mi).Death was considered as cardiac in origin unless obvious non-cardiac causes were identified.Tlr was defined as a repeat revascularization by pci or cabg of the target lesion.The stents used in the study included the medtronic endeavor rx, endeavor resolute and the resolute integrity drug eluting stents.1,832 consecutive patients who underwent pci for ulmd between january 2005 and december 2015 were identified.Of these, 512 dm patients who were not on hemodialysis were treated with des.The median follow-up period was 1870 days and 3 years clinical follow-up was available in 91.2% of the patients.Clinical outcomes reported from the study included tlf, cardiac death, tlr, mi, definite and probable stent thrombosis.It was also stated that two patients with severe ckd required hemodialysis during follow up periods.
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