Clinical Outcomes of Deferred Revascularisation Using Fractional Flow Reserve in Diabetic Patients
Highlights
- • In FFR-guided deferred coronary lesions, diabetic patients were at increased future risk when compared to non-diabetic.
- • This risk was mainly driven from cardiac death and target vessel MI but not target vessel revascularisation.
- • The future risk was proportional to the degree of ischaemia by FFR in the diabetic but not in the non-diabetic group.
Abstract
Background
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is used to assess the functional significance of coronary artery lesions. Diabetic patients are associated with high burden of atherosclerosis and microvascular dysfunction. We studied the clinical outcomes of diabetic patients who underwent FFR-guided deferred revascularisation.