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How the functional assessment of culprit and non-culprit lesions may improve stratification and treatment of STEMI patients.

Reperfusion therapy of the infarct-related artery (IRA) with primary percutaneous coronary intervention is the cornerstone for the treatment of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, up to 30% of STEMI patients present a multi-vessel coronary artery disease. Several methods are now available for the assessment of functional severity of a coronary stenosis both for IRA and non-culprit coronary lesions. The functional assessment of the IRA has mainly a prognostic implication in terms of major adverse cardiovascular events, recovery of left ventricular function and evaluation myocardial viability. Conversely, the functional assessment of the non-culprit coronary lesions has a fundamental role to guide staged revascularization. The aim of this review is to revise the most validated methods to perform the functional assessment of both culprit and non-culprit lesion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

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