A multi-center, international, randomized, 2-year, parallel-group study to assess the superiority of IVUS-guided PCI versus qualitative angio-guided PCI in unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease: Study protocol for OPTIMAL trial

• Giovanni Luigi De Maria,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Luca Testa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coronary Revascularisation Unit, IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

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• Jose M. de la Torre Hernandez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4570-8902

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• Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4039-8263

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• Maria Emfietzoglou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Roberto Scarsini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Francesco Bedogni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coronary Revascularisation Unit, IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

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• Ernest Spitzer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations European Cardiovascular Research Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Adrian Banning

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Adrian.Banning@ouh.nhs.uk

  Affiliation Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2842-7861

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