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Five-Year Outcomes With PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803538

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

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!