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.

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Keywords: FFR; PCI; myocardial perfusion; revascularization.

Comment on

Relative flow reserve derived from quantitative perfusion imaging may not outperform stress myocardial blood flow for identification of hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease.
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