Does the use of long drug-eluting stents (especially >50 mm) result in suboptimal post-PCI FFR in patients with long diffuse coronary artery disease?
Post-PCI FFR is frequently suboptimal in long diffuse coronary disease, especially when stent length exceeds 50 mm, highlighting physiological limitations of extensive stenting.
The FFR result post PCI was suboptimal in the majority of patients treated with long DES and was particularly poor when the total stent length exceeded 50 mm.
Baranauskas et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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