Healio

FFR-guided PCI for nonculprit lesions improves outcomes in acute MI, multivessel disease

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hahn and colleagues conducted the investigator-initiated, randomized FRAME-AMI trial of 562 patients with acute ...
Healio

FFR may confer treatment reclassification in CAD, diabetes

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Routine use of fractional flow reserve to manage CAD among patients with diabetes may be linked to an increased ...
MedPage Today

FFR-Guided PCI Saves $$ Clamping Down on Unnecessary Stents in MI Patients

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Medscape

FFR-Guided PCI Falls Short vs CABG in Multivessel CAD: FAME 3

Coronary stenting guided by fractional flow reserve (FFR) readings, considered to reflect the targeted lesion's functional impact, was no match for coronary bypass surgery (CABG) in patients with ...
Medscape

In All-Comer Approach, FFR Adds No Value to Angiography: RIPCORD 2

In patients with coronary artery disease scheduled for a percutaneous intervention (PCI), fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment at the time of angiography significantly improves outcome, but it has ...
News Medical

Practical clinical applications of cardiac FFR-CT analysis

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications volume 4, issue 1, pp. 31-42(12) ; DOI https:/ / doi. org/ 10. 15212/ CVIA. 2019. 0003, Talal ...
TCTMD

Swedish Data ‘Corroborate’ FFR’s Survival Benefit Seen in RCTs

More than a decade’s worth of fractional flow reserve (FFR) use to inform PCI choices in stable CAD patients has borne fruit, according to data from SCAAR (Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty ...
TCTMD

Conversations in Cardiology: In the ISCHEMIA Era, What Role for FFR?

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...
Nasdaq

iFR and FFR are equally safe to diagnose and treat heart disease according to largest-ever analysis of new real-world, long-term data

Safety of Philips’ iFR in the guidance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for heart disease demonstrated in late-breaking science at TCT 2023 highlighting patient-level outcomes analysis of ...
Nature

Should fractional flow reserve be used to decide whether to perform percutaneous coronary intervention?

The use of an intracoronary hemodynamic technique, such as FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE (FFR), to determine the severity of a stenosis, can help when deciding whether to perform percutaneous coronary ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Evidence-Based Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Invasive Epicardial Coronary Physiologic Assessment: A Scientific Statement From the Americ…

Invasive epicardial coronary physiologic assessment is increasingly performed to evaluate the hemodynamic significance of ...
MedPage Today

Red Meat-CVD Link Questioned; Drone AEDs to Bystanders; OCT-FFR in One Step?

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