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FFR can be used to determine whether by-pass lesions are significant. In this case, an additional complication was the fact that the lesion was placed at the ostium of the graft: in this case, it is important to retract the guiding catheter to avoid wedging.
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Aqel R, Zoghbi GJ, Hage F, Dell'Italia L, Iskandrian AE. Hemodynamic evaluation of coronary artery bypass graft lesions using fractional flow reserve. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2008;72:479–85.
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Gori, T. (2016). FFR in a Bypass. 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_39
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