Documentation of inducible myocardial ischaemia, related to the coronary stenosis of interest, is of increasing importance in lesion selection for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Fractional ...

SAN DIEGO — Fractional flow reserve derived from coronary angiography is comparable to conventional pressure wire-derived FFR for physiologic assessment of coronary stenoses, according to new findings ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Two new studies presented today at TCT 2013 highlight the benefit of assessing the functional severity of the coronary lesion using new twists on measuring fractional flow reserve ...

PARIS, FRANCE — The stress test, in all its iterations, could find competition for the evaluation of patients with chest pain who may or may not be good candidates for invasive coronary angiography, ...

WASHINGTON, DC—A head-to-head comparison of two imaging modalities—one assessing physiology, the other anatomy—suggests that both are equivalent when used to guide treatment of patients with ...

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the number of PCI procedures that use FFR measurements. It is 20%, or "one in five," and not five out of 900,000 as previously stated. St. Jude ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with critical limb ischemia, CT-derived fractional flow reserve often detected coronary ischemia, ...

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and CT imaging plays a crucial ...