The COMPLETE Treatment of Bifurcation With Two-stent Techniques: Randomized Comparison of Crush Versus Culotte Technique

The COMPLETE Treatment of Bifurcation With Two-stent Techniques: Randomized Comparison of Crush Versus Culotte Technique

In this COMPLETE randomized trial, using the contemporary second-generation drug-eluting stent, we aimed to test whether the crush technique is superior to the culotte technique for the treatment of bifurcation lesions in terms of 1-year target-lesion failure.

Inclusion criteria:

1. Age ≥19 years
2. De novo coronary lesions eligible for drug-eluting stent implantation
3. Medina 1,1,1 or 1,0,1 or 0,1,1 de novo bifurcation lesions (LM or non-LM) and those of main vessel or side branch can be covered by 2 stents
4. Reference vessel diameter of side branch ≥2.5 mm by visual estimation

Exclusion criteria

1. Current or potential pregnancy
2. Inability to follow the patient over the period of 1 year after enrollment, as assessed by the investigator
3. Subjects with ST elevation myocardial infarction <24 h from the onset of chest pain
4. Cardiogenic Shock