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Effects of stent postdilatation during primary PCI for STEMI: Insights from coronary physiology and optical coherence tomography.

Grigorios V KaramasisAndreas S KalogeropoulosReto A GammaGerald J CleshamValeria MarcoKare H TangRohan JagathesanJeremy W SayerNicholas M RobinsonAlamgir KabirRajesh K AggarwalPaul A KellyFrancesco PratiThomas R KeebleJohn R Davies
Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2020)
In this exploratory, hypothesis-generating study, postdilatation during primary-PCI for STEMI improved stent expansion, apposition and post-PCI FFR, without a significant effect on coronary microcirculation overall. Nevertheless, IMR increased in a group of patients and larger studies are warranted to explore predictors of microcirculatory response to postdilatation.
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