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Sunday, 21 September 2014

FFR-Guided PCI Using Contemporary Drug-Eluting

Fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided drug-eluting stenting reduces death, myocardial infarction or urgent revascularisation, as compared to medical therapy in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), according to the results of the FAME 2 trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) Congress. Whilst percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been performed for more than 30 years, its benefits in terms of 'hard endpoints'...