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. 2016 Sep 28;68(5):599–603. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2016.09.007

Table 2.

Lesion and procedural characteristics.

Characteristics Patients = 1161/lesions = 1312
Target vessel location
Left anterior descending, n (%)
768 (58.5%)
Right coronary artery, n (%) 324 (24.7%)
Left circumflex, n (%) 194 (14.8%)
Others, n (%) 26 (2.0%)



Total number of patient treated lesions, n 1312
Treated with 1 lesion, n (%) 1029 (88.6%)
Treated with 2 lesions, n (%) 114 (9.8%)
Treated with 3 lesions, n (%) 17 (1.5%)
Treated with 4 lesions, n (%) 1 (0.1%)
Average number of lesions per patient 1.1 ± 0.4
Reference vessel diameter (mean ± SD, mm) 3 ± 0.4
Lesion length (mean ± SD, mm) 18.5 ± 8.2
Diameter stenosis (mean ± SD, %) 89.9 ± 7.3



Type of stenosis
De novo, n (%) 1300 (99.1%)
In-Stent, n (%) 9 (0.7%)
Bifurcation, n (%) 3 (0.2%)



Type of lesion
Long, n (%) 166 (12.6%)
Diffused, n (%) 933 (71.1%)
Thrombus, n (%) 86 (6.6%)
CTO, n (%) 117 (8.9%)
Calcified, n (%) 10 (0.8%)



Pre-procedural TIMI flow grade
0, n (%) 178 (13.5%)
I, n (%) 645 (49.2%)
II, n (%) 458 (34.9%)
III, n (%) 31 (2.4%)
Pre-dilatation, n (%) 961 (73.2%)



Access site location, n 1161
Femoral, n (%) 782 (67.4%)
Radial, n (%) 379 (32.6%)
Average number of stents per patient 1.0 ± 0.1
Average number of stents per lesion 1.0 ± 0.1
Average stent length (mean ± SD, mm) 23.1 ± 8.4
Average stent diameter (mean ± SD, mm) 3.0 ± 0.4

CTO – chronic total occlusion, TIMI – thrombolysis in myocardial infarction.