Impact of Hydrostatic Pressure Variations Caused by Height Differences in Supine and Prone Positions on Fractional Flow Reserve Values in the Coronary Circulation.
Yoshitaka KawaguchiKazuki ItoHumihiko KinYusuke ShiraiAyako OkazakiKeisuke MiyajimaTomoyuki WatanabeMariko TatsuguchiYasushi WakabayashiYuichiro MaekawaPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiology (2019)
Hydrostatic pressure variations due to height levels influence intracoronary pressure measurements and largely affect resting Pd/Pa and FFR, which might have caused systematic differences in FFR values between the anterior and posterior coronary territories.