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This case emphasizes the differences between structural, anatomic, and functional assessment of coronary lesions. Both the LAD and the RCX presented lesions which, while seemingly severe at optical coherence tomography, did not cause functional obstruction.
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Gori, T., Hink, U. (2016). Mismatch Between Imaging and Functional Relevance of Coronary Stenoses: Seeing Is Not Believing. 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_24
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