In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients' need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...

PROVISION Study, Prospective Randomized Trial Evaluating Clinical Outcomes of FFRangio Versus FFR Guidance, Demonstrates Similar MACE Rates at One Year The PROVISION Study is the first Japanese ...

In 2018, Medicare established coverage and reimbursement for its first service using artificial intelligence (AI): computed tomography (CT) fractional flow reserve (FFRCT). FFRCT is used in ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from: Ambrose JA. TCT-54: The distribution of hgh-risk plaques with respect to artery stenosis in non-culprit non-ischemic native coronary lesions of diabetic patients: data from ...

The instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) remained comparable to fractional flow reserve (FFR) as a tool to help decide whether patients with stable angina or acute coronary syndrome need ...

As a stricter gatekeeper to nonculprit lesion intervention in people with acute myocardial infarction (MI) going for complete revascularization, fractional flow reserve (FFR) guidance was projected to ...

A routine strategy that assesses function of all epicardial vessels at the time of diagnostic angiography in patients with new-onset chest pain doesn’t cost any more than conventional diagnostic ...

Despite the morbidity associated with coronary artery bypass graft, this procedure has never been entirely displaced by percutaneous coronary intervention. The results from the latest in a series of ...

ORLANDO – November 4, 2021 – The primary results of the Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation (FAME) 3 trial found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided ...

PARIS, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the annual EuroPCR conference taking place in Paris, France, Dr. Toru Tanigaki of Gifu Heart Center in Gifu, Japan presented the one-year results of the ...