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When used alone, angiography may lead to unnecessary treatment of an overstented side branch. FFR evaluation may be used to functionally assess the severity of this lesion, but with conventional FFR wires it may be difficult to re-enter the side branch through the stent struts. The RXi FFR catheter (Acist/Bracco; Milan, Italy) has the advantage that it is used as a rapid exchange system over traditional wires that may more easily cross the stent struts into the side branch. We report on a case of FFR evaluation of a side branch which could only be wired after attempts with three different intracoronary wires.
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Turri, R., Penzo, C., Pacchioni, A., Saccà, S., Reimers, B. (2016). Bifurcation Lesions: A Quicker Solution for Re-entry. In: Gori, T., Fineschi, M. (eds) Atlas of FFR-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Interventions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47116-7_21
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