Long-term outcomes of stepwise provisional versus upfront two-stent strategies for true distal left main bifurcation lesions: a single-center registry study.

BMC Cardiovasc Disord · 2026 · PMC13348094 · PMID 42045855

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The EBC MAIN randomized trial (467 patients) compared stepwise provisional versus systematic dual-stent strategies for true distal LM bifurcations and found no statistically significant difference in the 12-month primary endpoint (death, MI, and TLR), with a numerical trend favoring the stepwise provisional strategy.

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