Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions by stent implantation only in parent vessel and angioplasty in sidebranch: immediate and long-term outcome.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the immediate and long-term outcome of intracoronary stent implantation for the treatment of bifurcation lesions. We treated 30 patients with bifurcation stenosis with the Bx Velocity stent implanted only in the parent vessel and with balloon angioplasty of the sidebranch. Angiographic success was 86.