Cath Lab Recap: Lousy Post-PCI Prognostic; High-Pitch CT Quality Interventional cardiology news to note
Fractional flow reserve (FFR) measured immediately after drug-eluting stent placement has too low a predictive value — with a positive likelihood ratio <1.4 for FFR 0.92 as the cutoff — to be of use as a surrogate clinical endpoint. This retrospective analysis was done on FAME 1 and FAME 2 data. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions)