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Role of Proximal Optimization Technique Guided by Intravascular Ultrasound on Stent Expansion, Stent Symmetry Index, and Side-Branch Hemodynamics in Patients With Coronary Bifurcation Lesions.
Circ Cardiovasc Interv
October 2017
From the Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (D.H., A.C., O.A., J.T., A.S., M.A.L.); Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt (D.H.); and Medtech Research Theme, National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School (N.F.).
Background: Bench models of coronary bifurcation lesions demonstrated that the proximal optimization technique (POT) expanded the stent and opened the side branch (SB). We investigated the role of POT guided by intravascular ultrasound on the main vessel (MV) stent expansion and SB fractional flow reserve (FFR) in patients with coronary bifurcation lesion.
Methods And Results: In 40 patients with coronary bifurcation lesion, 120 intravascular ultrasound examinations of the MV were performed at baseline, after MV stenting, and POT followed by 95 FFR measurements of the SB.