The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
Fast virtual functional assessment of intermediate coronary lesions using routine angiographic data and blood flow simulation in humans: comparison with pressure wire – fractional flow reserve
EuroIntervention 2014;10:574-583 published online ahead of print July 2014. DOI: 10.4244/EIJY14M07_01
Michail I. Papafaklis1,2, MD, PhD, FESC; Takashi Muramatsu3, MD; Yuki Ishibashi3, MD; Lampros S. Lakkas1, MD; Shimpei Nakatani3, MD; Christos V. Bourantas3, MD, PhD; Jurgen Ligthart3, BSc; Yoshinobu Onuma3, MD, PhD; Mauro Echavarria-Pinto4, MD; Georgia Tsirka1, MD; Anna Kotsia5, MD; Dimitrios N. Nikas1, MD, PhD, FESC; Owen Mogabgab5, MD; Robert-Jan van Geuns3, MD, PhD; Katerina K. Naka1, MD, PhD, FESC; Dimitrios I. Fotiadis6, PhD; Emmanouil S. Brilakis5, MD, PhD; Héctor M. Garcia-Garci
1. Department of Cardiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; 2. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; 3. Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Aims: To develop a simplified approach of virtual functional assessment of coronary stenosis from routine angiographic data and test it against fractional flow reserve using a pressure wi