Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance for Complex High-risk Indicated Procedures

The IVUS CHIP trial is a post-marketing strategy study in which patients with complex coronary lesions, undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), are treated either with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guided PCI or angiographic guided PCI . The IVUS-guided PCI approach is indicated to reduce the frequency of target-lesion failure (cardiac death, target-vessel myocardial infarction, and clinically indicated target-lesion revascularization) in patients with complex coronary lesions undergoing PCI. The objective of this study is to assess the superiority of an IVUS-guided approach versus an angio-guided approach in patients with complex coronary lesions undergoing PCI.