Should fractional flow reserve be used to decide whether to perform percutaneous coronary intervention?
Volker Klauss
Correspondence Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Munich, Ziemssenstrasse 1, 80336 Munich, Germany
Email klauss@med.uni-muenchen.de
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The decision of whether to perform PCI in patients with stable coronary artery disease should be based on objective signs of ischemia. In clinical practice, the symptoms of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease are often not typical, and conclusive stress tests are not always available or are not performed. Thus, many patients undergo an interventional procedure based solely on the morphologic criteria of a coronary angiogram.
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