CardioExchange Archive

January 26th, 2015

Measuring FFR During Cardiac Cath: Time to Go with the Flow?

John Ryan, MD

Is fractional flow reserve being overused, underused, or neither?

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November 28th, 2014

FDA Approves New Noninvasive FFR Technology

Larry Husten, PHD

The FDA said Wednesday that it had granted approval to a novel technology that noninvasively measures fractional flow reserve (FFR) using data obtained from a CT scan of the heart. In recent years a catheter-based form of FFR has been used by interventional cardiologists during catheterization procedures to measure the pressure gradient in partially blocked […]

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September 15th, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: September 15th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include prehospital ticagrelor in STEMI, ivabradine in stable CAD without clinical HF, FFR-guided PCI for stable CAD, and more.

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October 1st, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: October 1st

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include exercise and mortality in those with diabetes, BP targets in those with type-2 diabetes, and the diagnostic accuracy of FFR from CT angiography.

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August 28th, 2012

‘Rather Than … FAME, Give Me Truth’

Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD

The FAME 2 trial adds fuel to the debate regarding what measurements should guide decisions about revascularization.

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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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February 10th, 2011

What’s Keeping Us from Using FFR?

Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD

A recent study of PCI in subjects with multivessel CAD showed that procedure costs were lower when a management strategy based on the results of fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements was employed. The FFR-based strategy resulted in fewer stents used, which more than offset the cost of the FFR pressure wire. Even though FFR-guided PCI has […]

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