Angiography-derived functional assessment of left main coronary stenoses.
Sonoka YuasaFrancesco Maria LauriHernán Mejía-RenteríaCatherine LiontouHyun-Jong LeeToru TanigakiMasafumi NakayamaTakayuki WarisawaTakashi UchiyamaHitoshi MatsuoJustin E DaviesTakao SatoJavier EscanedPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2023)
Compared with FFR, QFR has acceptable diagnostic performance in determining the functional relevance of LM stenosis, being better than conventional angiographic assessment. Nonetheless, caution should be taken when applying functional angiography techniques for the assessment of LM stenosis given its particular anatomical characteristics.