Keishiro Sugimoto, Kuniaki Takahashi, Mana Okune, Masafumi Ueno, Tsutomu Fujita, Hirosato Doi, Tetsuya Tobaru, Shuichiro Takanashi, Yoshihisa Kinoshita, Yasuhide Okawa, Yasushi Fuku, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Kenichi Tsujita, Toshihiro Fukui, Tomoki Shimokawa, Yusuke Watanabe, Ken Kozuma, Genichi Sakaguchi, Gaku Nakazawa
Recent studies showed that preoperative functional assessment with fractional flow reserve (FFR) could predict a long-term patency of arterial bypass grafts in patients with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Quantitative flow ratio (QFR) is a novel angiography-based approach to estimate FFR. This study aimed to investigate whether preoperative QFR could discriminate arterial bypass function at 1 year after surgery. The PRIDE-METAL registry was a prospective, multicenter observational study that enrolled 54 patients with multivessel coronary artery disease...
October 2023: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics