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Review
. 2024 Jul 1:19:e09.
doi: 10.15420/icr.2023.17. eCollection 2024.

After RIPCORD 2, FAME 3, FLOWER-MI and FUTURE: Has the Pressure Wire had its Day?

Bhavik Modi  1   2 , Subhabrata Dutta  1 , Damien Collison  3   4 , Ioannis Lampadakis  5 , Sayan Sen  5
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After RIPCORD 2, FAME 3, FLOWER-MI and FUTURE: Has the Pressure Wire had its Day?

Bhavik Modi et al. Interv Cardiol. .

Abstract

Recent years have seen the publication of several high-profile, negative trials about pressure wires. This has coincided with a consistent increase in the ratio of angioplasty for acute coronary syndromes versus percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease, a greater use of intracoronary imaging during percutaneous coronary intervention and the continued evolution of computational fluid dynamics-derived estimations of fractional flow reserve from both CT and invasive coronary angiography. Consequently, many interventional cardiologists now wonder if the pressure wire will soon become obsolete. This head-to-head article provides a critical appraisal of recent trial data, discusses a potential evolution in how pressure wires are used and debates the motion that the device (and by extension, invasive assessment of coronary physiology) has now had its day.

Keywords: Physiology; fractional flow reserve; ischaemia; percutaneous coronary intervention.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure: BM has received speaker/consultancy fees from Boston Scientific, Chiesi and Sanofi. DC has received speaker/consultancy fees from Abbott. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Authors’ contributions: Introduction: Ioannis Lampadakis, Sayan Sen; For: Bhavik Modi, Subhabrata Dutta; Against: Damien Collison

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Figure 1:. Shifting Trends in Use of the Pressure Wire to Assess Epicardial Coronary Artery Disease
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