What part of the FFR link don't we understand?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1655-1657

  Hodgson, John McB ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

appropriate use; fractional flow reserve; percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVASCULARIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84907978495     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.08.011     Document Type: Editorial

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