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Seung-Whan Lee

Seung-Whan Lee

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Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
25341
World Ranking
15124
National Ranking
56

Overview

Seung-Whan Lee is affiliated with the Asan Medical Center in South Korea and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work centers around several main topics, including:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Peripheral Artery Disease Management
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Vascular Procedures and Complications

Seung-Whan Lee has contributed significantly to journals such as:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (10 publications)
  • Korean Circulation Journal (7 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (6 publications)
  • The American Journal of Cardiology (6 publications)
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (5 publications)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Seung-Whan Lee include:

  • Global Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing Algorithm, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Triglyceride glucose index is a useful marker for predicting subclinical coronary artery disease in the absence of traditional risk factors, 2020, Lipids in Health and Disease
  • Three-Year Sustained Clinical Efficacy of Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty in a Real-World Femoropopliteal Cohort, 2020, Journal of Endovascular Therapy
  • Early left atrial venting versus conventional treatment for left ventricular decompression during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: The EVOLVE-ECMO randomized clinical trial, 2023, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Prediction of Coronary Stent Underexpansion by Pre-Procedural Intravascular Ultrasound-Based Deep Learning, 2021, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Pil Hyung Lee (68 joint publications)
  • Young-Hak Kim (51 joint publications)
  • Cheol Whan Lee (40 joint publications)
  • Seong-Wook Park (40 joint publications)
  • Do-Yoon Kang (38 joint publications)

This body of work reflects a sustained engagement with cardiovascular medical research, particularly in interventional cardiology, diagnostic imaging, and vascular therapies.

Best Publications

  • Randomized trial of stents versus bypass surgery for left main coronary artery disease.

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park;Sung Cheol Yun

  • Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents

    Seung-Jung Park;Duk-Woo Park;Young-Hak Kim;Soo-Jin Kang

  • Stents versus Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

    Ki Bae Seung;Duk-Woo Park;Young-Hak Kim;Seung-Whan Lee

  • Sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis: comparison with bare metal stent implantation.

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Bong Ki Lee;Seung Whan Lee

  • Impact of Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance on Long-Term Mortality in Stenting for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis

    Seung Jung Park;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park;Seung Whan Lee

  • Trial of Everolimus-Eluting Stents or Bypass Surgery for Coronary Disease

    Seung Jung Park;Jung Min Ahn;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park

  • Comparison of coronary plaque rupture between stable angina and acute myocardial infarction: a three-vessel intravascular ultrasound study in 235 patients.

    Myeong Ki Hong;Gary S. Mintz;Cheol Whan Lee;Young Hak Kim

  • Guiding Principles for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Global Expert Consensus Document

    Emmanouil S. Brilakis;Kambis Mashayekhi;Etsuo Tsuchikane;Nidal Abi Rafeh

  • Optical Coherence Tomographic Analysis of In-Stent Neoatherosclerosis After Drug–Eluting Stent Implantation

    Soo-Jin Kang;Gary S. Mintz;Takashi Akasaka;Duk-Woo Park

  • Randomized Trial of Stents Versus Bypass Surgery for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: 5-Year Outcomes of the PRECOMBAT Study.

    Jung Min Ahn;Jae Hyung Roh;Young Hak Kim;Duk Woo Park

  • Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Stenting Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: 5-Year Results From the MAIN-COMPARE (Revascularization for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis: Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty Versus Surgical Revascularization) Registry

    Duk Woo Park;Ki Bae Seung;Young Hak Kim;Jong Young Lee

  • Optimal Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    Cheol Whan Lee;Jung Min Ahn;Duk Woo Park;Soo Jin Kang

  • Visual-Functional Mismatch Between Coronary Angiography and Fractional Flow Reserve

    Seung-Jung Park;Soo-Jin Kang;Jung-Min Ahn;Eun Bo Shim

  • Randomized Trial Evaluating Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusion.

    Seung Whan Lee;Pil Hyung Lee;Jung Min Ahn;Duk Woo Park

  • Drug-Eluting Stenting Followed by Cilostazol Treatment Reduces Late Restenosis in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus: The DECLARE-DIABETES Trial (A Randomized Comparison of Triple Antiplatelet Therapy With Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation in Diabetic Patients)

    Seung Whan Lee;Seong Wook Park;Young Hak Kim;Sung Cheol Yun

  • Triple versus dual antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting: Impact on stent thrombosis

    Seung Whan Lee;Seong Wook Park;Myeong Ki Hong;Young Hak Kim

  • Comprehensive Intravascular Ultrasound Assessment of Stent Area and Its Impact on Restenosis and Adverse Cardiac Events in 403 Patients With Unprotected Left Main Disease

    Soo-Jin Kang;Jung-Min Ahn;Haegeun Song;Won-Jang Kim

  • Meta-analysis of outcomes after intravascular ultrasound-guided versus angiography-guided drug-eluting stent implantation in 26,503 patients enrolled in three randomized trials and 14 observational studies.

    Jung-Min Ahn;Soo-Jin Kang;Sung-Han Yoon;Hyun Woo Park

  • Randomized Comparison of Adjunctive Cilostazol Versus High Maintenance Dose Clopidogrel in Patients With High Post-Treatment Platelet Reactivity Results of the ACCEL-RESISTANCE (Adjunctive Cilostazol Versus High Maintenance Dose Clopidogrel in Patients With Clopidogrel Resistance) Randomized Study

    Young-Hoon Jeong;Seung-Whan Lee;Bong-Ryong Choi;In-Suk Kim

  • Validation of Intravascular Ultrasound–Derived Parameters With Fractional Flow Reserve for Assessment of Coronary Stenosis Severity

    Soo-Jin Kang;Jong-Young Lee;Jung-Min Ahn;Gary S. Mintz

Frequent Co-Authors

Young-Hak Kim
Young-Hak Kim Asan Medical Center
Duk-Woo Park
Duk-Woo Park University of Ulsan
Seung-Jung Park
Seung-Jung Park University of Ulsan
Cheol Whan Lee
Cheol Whan Lee Asan Medical Center
Jong-Young Lee
Jong-Young Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Seong Wook Park
Seong Wook Park University of Ulsan
Gary S. Mintz
Gary S. Mintz Columbia University Medical Center
Yangsoo Jang
Yangsoo Jang Yonsei University
Hyo-Soo Kim
Hyo-Soo Kim Seoul National University Hospital
Patrick W. Serruys
Patrick W. Serruys University of Galway

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