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Research Article

An introduction to provisional stenting

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Pages 59-65 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Provisional or conditional stenting should be defined as the use of stents limited to those conditions and cases in which the operator, despite an aggressive balloon angioplasty technique with large balloons and high pressure, has been unable to obtain a result that ensures optimal chances of early and late patency. The paramount issue is how to discriminate the patients with optimal results after balloon angioplasty for whom additional stent implantation is unlikely to improve or may even worsen long-term outcome. The better results of elective stent implantation in the OPUS study suggest that visual assessment of the PTCA result is not sufficient to detect lesions with suboptimal lumen gain after PTCA. The addition of physiologic parameters (Doppler flow velocity measurements, fractional flow reserve) has improved the results of the provisional stent group, with the best outcome observed when complex lesions and multivessel treatment were included in these studies (FROST, DESTINI). Intravascular ultrasound, although more expensive and time-consuming, has the additional advantage to guide the dilatation strategy.

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