Can computed tomography (CT) angiography accurately measure fractional flow reserve (FFR)? Even if it can, is CT-derived ...
FFR Technologies
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for fractional flow reserve (FFR) wires, catheters and systems used to measure blood flow across a coronary lesion to determine if a stent is needed or if the plaque stenosis can be treated medically. The section includes iFR, instantaneous wave-free ratio, systems used in the cath lab and noninvasive FFR technologies including computed tomography-FFR. This is also referred to as CT-FFR or FFR-CT.
March 5, 2019 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Abbott's Resting Full-cycle Ratio (RFR) ...
December 21, 2018 — CathWorks announced that its FFRangio System received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
October 4, 2018 — The late-breaking FAST-FFR Trial demonstrated that the sensitivity and specificity of the CathWorks ...
October 1, 2018 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...
September 20, 2018 — At the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual meeting, Sept. 21–25 in San Diego ...
The use of invasive, pressure wire-based fractional flow reserve (FFR) in the cath lab is now considered the gold ...
August 29, 2018 — Philips announced that the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has incorporated instantaneous wave ...
Jeffrey Schussler, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FSCCT, FACP, interventional cardiologist at Baylor Scott White Heart and Vascular ...
August 2, 2018 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...
July 26, 2018 — The Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) released a focused update expert consensus ...
Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., FACC, FSCCT, associate professor, Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine ...
An interview with Patrick Serruys, M.D., Ph.D., Imperial College London, principal investigator of the SYNTAX III Trial ...
July 12, 2018 — CathWorks announced the approval of a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 0523T for non ...
July 3, 2018 — HeartFlow Inc. announced that UnitedHealthcare now covers the HeartFlow FFRct Analysis, extending access ...