Moving beyond coronary stenosis: has the time arrived to address important physiological questions not answered by fractional flow reserve alone?

Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Jun;7(3):282-4. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.114.001468.

Authors

Javier Escaned¹, Mauro Echavarría-Pinto²

Affiliations

¹ From the Hospital Clínico San Carlos/Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, and Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain. [email protected].
² From the Hospital Clínico San Carlos/Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, and Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 24944302
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.114.001468

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; coronary flow reserve; fractional flow reserve, myocardial; myocardial ischemia.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Blood Flow Velocity / physiology*
Coronary Stenosis / physiopathology*
Coronary Vessels / physiopathology*
Female
Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial / physiology*
Humans
Male
Severity of Illness Index*