Andrea Erriquez, Gianluca Campo, Vincenzo Guiducci, Gianni Casella, Mila Menozzi, Enrico Cerrato, Giorgio Sacchetta, Raul Moreno, Marco Arena, Ignacio Amat Santos, Jose Luis Diez Gil, Roberto Scarsini, Marco Ruozzi, Manfredi Arioti, Andrea Picchi, Marco Barbierato, Elisabetta Moscarella, Sergio Musto D'Amore, Valerio Lanzilotti, Caterina Cavazza, Marco Rezzaghi, Marta Cocco, Andrea Marrone, Filippo Maria Verardi, Javier Escaned, Emanuele Barbato, Iginio Colaiori, Nicola Pesenti, Greta Carrara, Simone Biscaglia
BACKGROUND: The role of quantitative flow ratio (QFR) in the treatment of nonculprit vessels of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) is a topic of ongoing discussion. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the predictive capability of QFR for adverse events and its noninferiority compared to wire-based functional assessment in nonculprit vessels of MI patients. METHODS: The FIRE (Functional Assessment in Elderly MI Patients With Multivessel Disease) trial randomized 1,445 older MI patients to culprit-only (n = 725) or physiology-guided complete revascularization (n = 720)...
May 3, 2024: JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions