October 28th, 2011
Belgian Study Supports Use of FFR to Guide Therapy in Intermediate LAD Lesions
Larry Husten, PHD
A study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions suggests that fractional flow reserve (FFR) may be safely used to guide treatment in patients with an intermediate left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) stenosis. Olivier Muller and colleagues report on 730 patients at a single center in Belgium who had a 30% to 70% stenosis in the proximal segment […]
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