Abstract
As outlined in the previous chapters, myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR myo ) is a lesion-specific index of the functional severity of a coronary stenosis, calculated from pressure measurements during coronary arteriography1–8. It has been shown in chapter 11 that a value of 0.75 distinguishes lesions, associated with reversible ischemia or not, with minimal overlap. In this chapter the usefulness of fractional flow reserve is investigated for clinical decision-making in patients with intermediate coronary stenosis, and compared to an ischemic standard composed by all presently used non-invasive tests: exercise testing, thallium scintigraphy, and dobutamine stress-echocardiography.
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Pijls, N.H.J., De Bruyne, B. (2000). Fractional Flow Reserve to Assess Intermediate Stenosis. In: Coronary Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 195. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9564-3_12
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