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Five-Year Outcomes With PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve [1]

Submitted by aprotopapas [2] on Wed, 2018-07-25 06:14

Interesting to read that percutaneous coronary intervention did not confer any survival benefit (nor protection from myocardial infarction) in an international randomized controlled trial of 888 patients when compared to medical therapy!

Source name: 
The New England Journal of Medicine
Resource link: 
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803538 [3]
Taxonomy: 
Coronary Disease - Other [4]
Coronary Disease - PCI [5]
Myocardial Infarction [6]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [7]
Author(s): 
Panagiotis Xaplanteris, Stephane Fournier, Nico H.J. Pijls, William F. Fearon, Emanuele Barbato, Pim A.L. Tonino, Thomas Engstrøm, Stefan Kääb, Jan-Henk Dambrink, Gilles Rioufol, Gabor G. Toth, Zsolt Piroth, Nils Witt, Ole Fröbert, Petr Kala, Axel Linke, Nicola Jagic, Martin Mates, Kreton Mavromatis, Habib Samady, Anand Irimpen, Keith Oldroyd, Gianluca Campo, Martina Rothenbühler, Peter Jüni, Bernard De Bruyne, for the FAME 2 Investigators
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Coronary Artery [8]
Source URL:https://spb-cts.freelock.com/jans/five-year-outcomes-pci-guided-fractional-flow-reserve-0

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[1] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/jans/five-year-outcomes-pci-guided-fractional-flow-reserve-0 [2] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/home/aprotopapas [3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803538 [4] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/taxonomy/coronary-disease-other [5] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/taxonomy/coronary-disease-pci [6] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/tags/myocardial-infarction [7] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/categories/cardiac [8] https://spb-cts.freelock.com/taxonomy2018/coronary-disease