New study aims to improve heart procedure outcomes for minority patients

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. The patient must be ≥18 years of age and self-identify within a US census-defined minority 2. Patients with an indication for PCI of at least one lesion satisfying any of the following criteria: 1. Angiographic heavy calcification 2. Ostial lesions 3. True bifurcation lesions involving side-branches \>2.5mm 4. Left main lesions 5. Chronic total occlusion 6. In-stent restenosis 7. Long-lesions (estimated stent length \> 28mm) OR Patient with an indication for PCI for any lesion and in need for elective mechanical circulatory support assisted PCI 3. Presenting with silent ischemia, stable angina, unstable angina or non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) 4. All lesions must be suitable for treatment with FDA-approved contemporary generation drug eluting stents or drug-coated balloons 5. The patient is willing and able to cooperate with registry procedures and follow-up until registry completion 6. Subject is able to confirm understanding of risks, benefits and treatment alternatives and he/she (or an authorized legal representative) provides informed consent prior to any protocol-related procedure, as approved by the appropriate IRB Exclusion Criteria: 1. ST-elevation myocardial infarction or cardiogenic shock within prior 7 days 2. Known untreated severe valvular heart disease 3. Contraindication on the use of IVUS (i.e. extreme vessel tortuosity) 4. Requiring PCI in a diseased aorto-coronary bypass 5. Known contraindication or hypersensitivity to anticoagulants 6. Absolute contraindications or allergy that cannot be pre-medicated, to iodinated contrast or to antiplatelet drugs, including both aspirin and P2Y12 inhibitors 7. Non-cardiac co-morbidities with a life expectancy less than 1 year 8. A patients that is currently participating in a clinical trial that has not yet reached its primary endpoint cannot be included in this registry. A patient may only be enrolled in this registry once.