Vessel Fractional Flow Reserve and Graft Vasculopathy in Heart Transplant Recipients.

Sakura NagumoEmanuele GallinoroAlessandro CandrevaTakuya MizukamiGiovanni MonizziMonika KodeboinaSofie VerstrekenRiet DierckxWard HeggermontJozef BartunekMarc GoethalsDimitri BuytaertBernard De BruyneJeroen SonckCarlos Collet Marc Vanderheyden

Published in: Journal of interventional cardiology (2020)

The impairment in epicardial conductance assessed by vFFR in a subgroup of patients without CAV according to standard ISHLT criteria suggests the presence of a diffuse vasculopathy undetectable by conventional angiography. Therefore, we speculate that vFFR may be useful in risk stratification after HTx.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
computed tomography
heart failure
optical coherence tomography
prognostic factors
randomized controlled trial
low grade
open label
phase iii