title: Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy.
abstract: We report a case of successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty guided from pressure-wire measurements in a transplanted patient. Fractional flow reserve, a lesion-specific, pressure-independent index of functional stenosis severity, was used to guide the intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casella
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rieber
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mudra
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Klauss
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011312:Pressure; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional