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Interventional Cardiology
What is your preferred method of lesion interrogation for intermediate left main coronary artery stenosis?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I typically use a multimodality approach including iFR or FFR (using typical cut offs) and IVUS using cutoff of MLA < 6.0 mm2.
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