Coronary artery disease: Percent stenosis in CAD--a flaw in current practice.
The optimum strategy to treat patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) has been under debate. New data show that revascularization guided by fractional flow measurements leads to better outcomes than revascularization guided by arteriography. we call for a paradigm shift in CAD care, with coronary flow measurements by PET as key to diagnosis and clinical decision-making.
Gould
K Lance
KL
Weatherhead PET Imaging Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis, University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030, USA. k.lance.gould@uth.tmc.edu
Johnson
Nils P
NP
D000792:Angiography; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index