September 23, 2015Open Access

Deferral vs. performance of percutaneous coronary intervention of functionally non-significant coronary stenosis: 15-year follow-up of the DEFER trial

Structured PICO

Does deferral of PCI improve or maintain outcomes compared to performance of PCI in patients with functionally non-significant coronary stenosis?

Population

Patients with functionally non-significant coronary stenosis

Intervention

Deferral of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)

Comparator

Performance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)

Outcome

Very long-term follow-up outcomes (not explicitly defined in abstract)

Deferring PCI for functionally non-significant coronary stenosis remains safe over 15 years without a late catch-up phenomenon.

Abstract

Deferral of PCI of a functionally non-significant stenosis is associated with a favourable very long-term follow-up without signs of late 'catch-up' phenomenon.

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Zimmermann et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e52df2be91d4a9e2d37b0f https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehv452

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