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Fractional Flow Reserve–Guided Versus Angiography-Guided Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Friday, October 11, 2013

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Source

Source Name: Circulation

Source URL: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/128/13/1405.abstract

Author(s)

Gabor Toth, MD; Bernard De Bruyne, MD, PhD; Filip Casselman, MD, PhD; Frederic De Vroey, MD; Stylianos Pyxaras, MD; Luigi Di Serafino, MD, PhD; Frank Van Praet, MD; Carlos Van Mieghem, MD, PhD; Bernard Stockman, MD; William Wijns, MD, PhD; Ivan Degrieck, MD; Emanuele Barbato, MD, PhD

This is a very interesting retropsective cohort study that looks at patients that either did or did not have an FFR preoperatively.

FFR for intermediate stenoses reduced the number of grafts required and increased the number of patients suitable for OFF pump surgery with no difference in clinical outcome measures.