TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Basic Stent Deployment Techniques A1 - Ellis, Stephen G. A2 - Samady, Habib A2 - Fearon, William F. A2 - Yeung, Alan C. A2 - King III, Spencer B. PY - 2017 T2 - Interventional Cardiology, 2e AB - The technical goal of coronary stenting should be to eliminate or lessen ischemic symptoms in the short/intermediate term and possibly reduce the risk of death or myocardial infarction, while not exposing the patient to excess short- or long-term risk. Yet major adverse cardiac events (MACE) occur in 4% to 20% of stented sites within a year,1,2 and stent underexpansion3,4 and axial misalignment (“geographic miss”)5 account for nearly half of these. Although a discussion of choosing percutaneous intervention instead of bypass surgery or optimal medical therapy alone is beyond the scope of this chapter, we will address various issues to be considered to provide the patient with an optimal technical result. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146598446 ER -