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Slightly more complex than the previous one, a quick way to induce hyperemia is to inject a contrast bolus. Although the degree of hyperemia reached this way is not as large as with vasodilators, this maneuver can still allow unmasking a gradient.
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Johnson NP, Jeremias A, Zimmermann FM, Adjedj J, Witt N, Hennigan B, et al. Continuum of vasodilator stress from rest to contrast medium to adenosine hyperemia for fractional flow reserve assessment. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016;9:757–67.
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Gori, T. (2016). Contrast-Induced Hyperemia and FFR: Slightly Slower but still “Quick and Clean”. In: Gori, T., Fineschi, M. (eds) Atlas of FFR-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Interventions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47116-7_9
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