The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has seen exponential growth across registries over the years, combined with mounting and increasingly robust evidence. The fact that it will enable us to characterize plaque morphology and extension prior the intervention, and even assess stent expansion post intervention, has turned it into a pillar of our efforts to...
Compared with visual estimation of lesions, using quantitative angiography-derived fractional flow reserve (quantitative flow ration, QFR) provides better clinical outcomes at one year for angioplasty. These results emerge from the Chinese FAVOR III study, presented at the 2021 TCT scientific sessions and simultaneously published in The Lancet. The simplicity and safety offered by QRF—since there is...
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The predecessor of this research—RIPCORD, published in 2014—showed that using fractional flow reserve (FFR) changes the treatment strategy in about 25% of patients. That marked the rise of FFR. In fact, the DEFER, FAME, and FAME 2 studies offered results consistent with the original RIPCORD. In this research, authors tested the hypothesis of systematic use of...
What triggered this study was a long unanswered question: should patients successfully resuscitated from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presenting a non-STEMI ECG be immediately taken to the cath lab? In response to this question the TOMAHAWK randomized 554 out-of-hospital resuscitated patients without electrocardiographic evidence of ST-segment elevation patients to immediate angiography (n=281) vs intensive care...
Functional assessment with fractional flow reserve (FFR) was not better than conventional angiography to guide complete revascularization in patients with multivessel lesions in a setting of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and successful primary angioplasty. These results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and presented during the American College of Cardiology (ACC)...