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Comparison of Fractional Flow Reserve to Non-Invasive Tests to Detect Reversible Ischemia

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Coronary Pressure

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 195))

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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 10 that a value of 0.75 distinguishes lesions, associated with reversible ischemia or not, with minimal overlap. In this chapter the usefulness of this new invasive index 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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  2. Cardiovascular Center, Aalst, Belgium

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Pijls, N.H.J., De Bruyne, B. (1997). Comparison of Fractional Flow Reserve to Non-Invasive Tests to Detect Reversible Ischemia. In: Coronary Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 195. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8834-8_11

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