Coronary disease & ACSRandomised controlled trial

Side Branch Additional Treatment for Coronary Bifurcation Lesion Revascularization

JACC Cardiovasc IntervPublished

  • Randomised controlled trial
  • multicentre
  • international
  • non-inferiority

Authors' conclusion

The KISS trial demonstrates that a conservative strategy without systematic SB intervention is associated with very rare procedural complications and is noninferior to a systematic SB intervention regarding periprocedural MI and myocardial injury.

Study context

Population
Patients with non-left main coronary bifurcation lesions
Participants
616 patients
Comparison
No systematic side branch intervention vs systematic side branch intervention after main branch stenting
Primary endpoint
Periprocedural myocardial infarction (MI) or myocardial injury (Academic Research Consortium 2 definition)

Primary result

As reported in the abstract

Periprocedural MI or myocardial injury

no-SBI vs SB intervention (SBI): P < 0.001 · no-SBI vs SBI: P = 0.38

Secondary outcomes

OutcomeValuesP value
Target lesion failure (cardiac death, target vessel MI, target lesion revascularization) · 1 year · no differenceno-SBI 4.9% · SBI 6.4%P = 0.442
SB intervention required in no-SBIno-SBI 2.0%

Primary endpoint by age, sex, Medina classification, side branch (SB) residual stenosis (subgroups)

No significant interaction

Procedure time, radiation dose, contrast use

Significantly lower in no-SBI

Safety

SB dissection · procedural complications rare

P = 0.004

Parts of this Brief are withheld: the automatic checks could not confirm them against the abstract.

Original publication

Side Branch Additional Treatment for Coronary Bifurcation Lesion Revascularization. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. Published 27 April 2026. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2026.02.012

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