The use of intravascular ultrasound during percutaneous coronary intervention does not reduce all cause in-hospital mortality but doubles the cost, with higher utilization in privately insured patients

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Keywords

• percutaneous coronary intervention (pci)
• stenting
• mortality
• intravascular ultrasound (ivus)
• coronary imaging
• intracoronary imaging
• optical coherence tomography
• ivus guided pci