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. 2021 Jul;7(1):45–51. doi: 10.4244/AIJ-D-20-00003

Table 3. Percent of enrolled patients with diabetes and/or complex lesion/procedural characteristics.

Characteristic Percent of total enrolled patients (N=1,800)
History of diabetes mellitus 29%
Long lesions (≥18 mm) 68%
Small vessels (≤2.75 mm) 43%
Bifurcation 18%
Overlapping stents 20%
Chronic total occlusion 9%
AMI within 72 hours 10%
Complex patient* 61%
*Complex patient defined as having a bifurcation, bypass grafts, in-stent restenosis, AMI <72 hours, left ventricular ejection fraction <30%, unprotected left main coronary artery, more than 2 vessels stented, renal insufficiency or failure (creatinine >140 µmol/L), lesion length >27 mm, more than 1 lesion per vessel, lesion with thrombus or total occlusion (pre-procedure TIMI=0). AMI: acute myocardial infarction; TIMI: Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction