FFR血流储备数.ppt

* It could be very difficult to predict the severity of an intermediate stenosis (40-60%) just by eyeballing an fluoroscopic image. Does this RCA stenosis look significant? Should it be treated?According to the FFR measurement this lesion is NOT significant and is NOT the lesion that causes the patients chest pain/ischemia. Reference: “How good are experienced cardiologists at predicting the hemodynamic severity of coronary stenoses when taking FFR as the golden standard”, Brueren et al, The international Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging; 2002: 18; 73-76 * In arteries with serial stenose