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Assessment of side branch compromise after coronary bifurcation stenting: a computational study
European Bifurcation Club 2015 – EBC 2015 – Athens, Greece
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Assessment of side branch compromise after coronary bifurcation stenting: a computational study
Author: J.J. Wentzel, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
CONCLUSION
- Stenting causes change in side branch ostium 3D- shape but its area remains similar for lipid and fibrous cases
- possible misleading interpretation of the outcomes from angiography
- Side branch compromise depends mainly on plaque composition
- more pronounced with calcium plaque
- plaque composition has more influence than distal angle
- Side branch compromise is reduced if a shorter post-dilation balloon is used