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Editorial
. 2022 Oct 18;2(5):604-606.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2022.05.001. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Benefits of Fractional Flow Reserve-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Yasutsugu Shiono  1
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Benefits of Fractional Flow Reserve-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Yasutsugu Shiono. JACC Asia. .
No abstract available

Keywords: fractional flow reserve; percutaneous coronary intervention; prognosis; stable ischemic heart disease; unstable angina.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Shiono has received lecture fees from Abbott Medical Japan.

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Benefits of FFR-Guided PCI (A) Survival benefits and (B) reduction of myocardial infarction by FFR-guided PCI as compared with angiography-guided PCI or medical therapy alone. FFR = fractional flow reserve; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention. ∗Maron et al. †Hong et al, Parikh et al, and Volz et al.,, ‡Xaplanteris et al and Zimmermann et al., §Chaitman et al, Navarese et al, and Bangalore et al., , ¶Hong et al and Zimmermann et al.,,.
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