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

M. Zimmermann, Frederik; Ferrara, Angela; P. Johnson, Nils; X. van Nunen, Lokien; Escaned, Javier; Albertsson, Per; Erbel, Raimund; Legrand, Victor; Gwon, Hyeong-Cheol; Remkes, Wouter; R. Stella, Pieter; van Schaardenburgh, Pepijn; Jan Willem Bech, G.; De Bruyne, Bernard; H.J. Pijls, Nico

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehv452

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

Published in European Heart Journal • Sep 23, 2015

Authors:

Frederik M. Zimmermann

Angela Ferrara

Nils P. Johnson

Abstract

AIMS: Stenting an angiographically intermediate but functionally non-significant stenosis is controversial. Nevertheless, it has been questioned if deferral of a functionally non-significant lesion on the basis of fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement, is safe, especially on the long term. Five-...

Subject

Medicine

Conventional PCI

Percutaneous coronary intervention

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