Fractional flow reserve for coronary bifurcation lesions: can fractional flow reserve-guided side branch intervention strategy improve clinical outcomes compared with angiography-guided strategy?

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: bkkoo@snu.ac.kr.

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Bon-Kwon Koo. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2015.

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. 2015 Apr 20;8(4):547-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2015.01.008. Epub 2015 Mar 26.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: bkkoo@snu.ac.kr.

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Keywords: bifurcation; fractional flow reserve; revascularization.

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