Background The preferred initial treatment for patients with stable coronary artery disease is
the best available medical therapy. We hypothesized that in patients with functionally …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

Background: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) has become an established tool for guiding
treatment, but its graded relationship to clinical outcomes as modulated by medical therapy …

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) has emerged as a noninvasive method
for direct visualization of coronary artery disease, with previous studies demonstrating high …

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a functional index quantifying the severity of coronary artery
lesions and is clinically obtained using an invasive, catheter-based measurement. Recently …

Interventions. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the
American College of Cardiology (www. cardiosource. org), the American Heart Association …

Whenever possible, the recommendations listed in this document are evidence based.
Articles reviewed in this guideline revision covered evidence from the past 10 years through …

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the incidence and causes of an abnormal
instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) after angiographically successful percutaneous …

Aims The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of single-photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT), stress echocardiography (SE), invasive coronary …

Background—Hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease is an important
indication for revascularization. Stress myocardial perfusion imaging is a noninvasive …