The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
Additive diagnostic value of atherosclerotic plaque characteristics to non-invasive FFR for identification of lesions causing ischaemia: results from a prospective international multicentre trial
EuroIntervention 2016;12:473-481 published online ahead of print September 2015. DOI: 10.4244/EIJY15M09_02
Ryo Nakazato1, MD; Hyung-Bok Park2, MD; Heidi Gransar3, MSc; Jonathon A. Leipsic4, MD; Matthew J. Budoff5, MD; G.B. John Mancini6, MD; Andrejs Erglis7, MD; Daniel S. Berman3, MD; James K. Min8*, MD
1. Cardiovascular Center, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; 2. Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Seoul, South Korea; 3. Departments of Imaging (Division of Nuclear Medicine) and Medicine (Division of Cardiology), Cedars-Sinai Heart Institu
Aims: We evaluated the association between atherosclerotic plaque characteristics (APCs) by CT –including positive remodelling (PR), low attenuation plaque (LAP) and spotty calcification