Fractional Flow Reserve versus Angiography for Guiding Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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Authors

Pim A.L. Tonino · Radboud University Nijmegen

Bernard De Bruyne · Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital

Nico H.J. Pijls · Catharina Ziekenhuis

Uwe Siebert · Massachusetts General Hospital

Fumiaki Ikeno · Stanford Medicine

Marcel van ’t Veer · Catharina Ziekenhuis

Volker Klauß

Abstract

Routine measurement of FFR in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who are undergoing PCI with drug-eluting stents significantly reduces the rate of the composite end point of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and repeat revascularization at 1 year. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00267774.)

Topics & Keywords

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 360, Issue 3, pp. 213-224

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0807611

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