Hirofumi Ohashi, Takuya Mizukami, Jeroen Sonck, Frederic Boussiet, Brian Ko, Bjarne L Nørgaard, Michael Mæng, Jesper Møller Jensen, Koshiro Sakai, Hirohiko Ando, Tetsuya Amano, Nicolas Amabile, Ziad Ali, Bernard De Bruyne, Bon-Kwon Koo, Hiromasa Otake, Carlos Collet
BACKGROUND: Following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), optical coherence tomography provides prognosis information. The pullback pressure gradient is a novel index that discriminates focal from diffuse coronary artery disease based on fractional flow reserve pullbacks. We sought to investigate the association between coronary artery disease patterns, defined by coronary physiology, and optical coherence tomography after stent implantation in stable patients undergoing PCI. METHODS AND RESULTS: This multicenter, prospective, single-arm study was conducted in 5 countries (NCT03782688)...
February 23, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association