Intravascular imaging and physiologic lesion assessment to define critical coronary stenoses.
Despite the fact that the coronary angiogram is the gold-standard in assessing a coronary artery stenosis for the purposes of clinical decision making, it has many limitations. Alternative methods are available. This article discusses three of these: intravascular ultrasound, coronary flow reserve, and fractional flow reserve.
Gruberg
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Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Washington, DC, USA.
Mintz
G S
GS
Satler
L F
LF
Kent
K M
KM
Pichard
A D
AD
Leon
M B
MB
D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D003097:Collateral Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional