Fractional flow reserve guided percutaneous coronary intervention results in reduced ischemic myocardium and improved outcomes.
Abhishek C SawantAishwarya BhardwajKinjal BanerjeeYash JobanputraArnav KumarParth ParikhKrishna C KandregulaKanhaiya PoddarStephen G EllisRavi NairJohn CorbelliSamir R KapadiaPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2018)
Compared with angiography-guided PCI, FFR-guided PCI results in less repeat revascularization and a lower incidence of post PCI ischemia translating into improved survival, without an increase in complications.
Keyphrases
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute myocardial infarction
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- antiplatelet therapy
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- atrial fibrillation
- risk factors
- coronary artery bypass
- optical coherence tomography
- type diabetes
- ischemia reperfusion injury
- blood brain barrier
- metabolic syndrome
- brain injury
- cerebral ischemia
- adipose tissue
- subarachnoid hemorrhage