Angiographic Versus Functional Severity of Coronary Artery Stenoses in the FAME Study. Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 2816-2821

  Tonino, Pim A L ^a   Fearon, William F ^b   De Bruyne, Bernard ^c   Oldroyd, Keith G ^d   Leesar, Massoud A ^e   Ver Lee, Peter N ^f   MacCarthy, Philip A ^g   van't Veer, Marcel ^a   Pijls, Nico H J ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^d GOLDEN JUBILEE NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f EASTERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coronary angiography; drug eluting stent; fractional flow reserve; multivessel coronary artery disease; percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953298568     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.11.096     Document Type: Article

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