Physiologic stenosis severity, binary thinking, revascularization, and "hidden reality"

Affiliations

¹ From the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX k.lance.gould@uth.tmc.edu.
² From the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX.

Editorial

K Lance Gould et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jan.

. 2015 Jan;8(1):e002970.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.114.002970.

¹ From the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX k.lance.gould@uth.tmc.edu.
² From the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX.

No abstract available

Keywords: FFR; PCI; myocardial perfusion; revascularization.

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