Coronary flow reserve (CFR) is a key sign of coronary artery disease, namely how the coronary arteries that feed blood to the heart may adapt to various physiological situations such as exercise, ...

June 18, 2012 (Miami Beach, Florida) — Measuring coronary flow reserve (CFR) with positron emission tomography (PET) in patients 75 years and older reveals that some of them have preserved coronary ...

The instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) is an index used to assess the severity of coronary-artery stenosis. The index has been tested against fractional flow reserve (FFR) in small trials, and the ...

We hypothesized that in patients with stable coronary artery disease and stenosis, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed on the basis of the fractional flow reserve (FFR) would be ...

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Left: 3D power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical volumes of the myocardium in the left-anterior descending artery. Right: Absolute flow velocities estimated by 4D ultrafast ultrasound flow ...

Heart disease was and is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but the only good news is the factors that ...

CD34+ cell therapy in patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction improved coronary flow reserve in addition to angina class and symptoms at 6 months, according to data from the ESCaPE-CMD trial ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—STEMI patients with good coronary collateral circulation undergoing PCI are more likely to be alive at 2 years and have better cardiac function when compared with STEMI patients ...

Scientists have identified a gut microbiota profile that can help forecast future cardiovascular events in patients with heart disease, paving the way for more personalized treatment and early ...