A new quantitative analysis system for the evaluation of coronary bifurcation lesions: Comparison with current conventional methods

Objective conventional quantitative angiographic systems are designed to automatically follow the contours of straight vascular segments and not of bifurcations. Recently a new analysis method was specifically developed for bifurcation lesions, able to automatically divide the lesion into three separate segments. In this study, we aimed to assess whether the smaller interaction required by the analyst could reduce the analysis time and inter and intra observer variability when compared with a conventional analysis.

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