Zening Jin, Bo Xu, Xingsheng Yang, Ruofei Jia, Shuai Meng, Hongyu Hu, Yue Deng, Xiaojing Cao, Yang Ruan, Jing Han, Jian Liu, Xinkai Qu, Yujie Zhou, Jian'an Wang, Guosheng Fu, Bo Yu, Yang Wang, Changdong Guan, Lei Song, Shengxian Tu, Shubin Qiao, Gregg W Stone
BACKGROUND: The clinical utility of the quantitative flow ratio (QFR), a novel angiography-based index for the functional assessment of coronary stenoses, has recently been demonstrated in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to ascertain whether the beneficial outcomes of QFR guidance for lesion selection during PCI is affected by diabetes status. METHODS: This substudy from the FAVOR III China trial, in which diabetes was one of the prespecified factors for stratified randomization, compared clinical outcomes of QFR-guided vs angiography-guided PCI lesion selection according to the presence of diabetes...
September 27, 2022: Journal of the American College of Cardiology