Showing posts with label FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Virtual Fractional Flow reserve could be useful for Heart Surgeons (and Patients).

Fractional flow reserve is a measure of the pressure drop across a narrowing in an artery when that artery is maximally dilated  - i.e. it tell us whether a stenosis in any artery (usual a coronary artery) is significant.
I remember getting quite excited when I first read about this new technique.