Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy.
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.
Casella
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Department of Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
Rieber
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Mudra
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Klauss
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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