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Does FAME II Trump COURAGE? FFR: Key to Stents and Angioplasty
Positive news today from St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) about FFR as a clinical decision-making tool. The company announced that it is stopping enrollment in its FAME II trial after only 2/3 of the...
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FAME II is Not the “Anti-COURAGE”: Stents and Angioplasty in the Spotlight
There’s been much talk this week in the interventional cardiology community (and among stock market analysts) about stents and angioplasty, given the news that the FAME II clinical trial ended...
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Stent-Trek: The Next Generation
Starship Stenterprise Yeah. I went there. Since everyone from Motley Fool to MassDevice to the Wall Street Journal feels the need to use “Stent Wars” (a pun that I originated on this website a decade...
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Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Tremmel of Stanford
Jennifer Tremmel, MD The Stanford School of Medicine blog “SCOPE” is featuring an “Ask the Doctor About Women’s Heart Health” article. The doctor is Jennifer Tremmel, MD, Clinical Director of Women’s...
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FAME II: Should Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) Be Mandatory?
Earlier today, the opening day of EuroPCR, Dr. Bernard De Bruyne presented preliminary results from the FAME II trial which tested the diagnostic power of Fractional Flow Reserve to guide PCI...
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Results of the ADVISE Registry Published
Artist illustration of the iFR “Wave Free Period” As previously reported on Angioplasty.Org, a new method for the functional measurement of intracoronary pressures and the severity of blockages has...
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Ad Hoc Angioplasty: The Patient Is On The Table
Cardiologist talks to a patient “on the table” in cath lab Something that is “on the table” is defined as an item that is “up for discussion.” And this week The Society for Cardiac Angiography and...
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Fractional Flow (Chart) Reserve
Click to enlarge flow chart Best medical practices for angioplasty and stent placement are a moving target because no sooner than a guideline is published it can be changed by the results of a more...
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The Activated Patient Blog Launches
Partnering with informed patients is a central tenant of the newly released joint 2012 Guidelines For Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Stable Ischemic Disease, as well as SCAI’s consensus...
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Back to the Future: Drug-Eluting Angioplasty Balloons, Dissolving Stents, FFR...
I added a new category “tag” to the stent blog today: “Back to the Future.” And I hereby declare this to be an internet meme, even if it’s only a meme on this site! I added this category because every...
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George W. Bush Gets Angioplasty and Stent – Was It Necessary?
Former President George W. Bush received an angioplasty and stent this morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The stent was recommended by Bush’s doctors to open a blockage in one of his...
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FFR and iFR: Roadmapping Your Heart, “With Traffic”
The coronary angiogram is often referred to as a road map of the heart. As such, it serves the cardiologist and cardiac surgeon well. It shows where the coronary arteries are, how they intersect, the...
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Fractional Flow Reserve and Ebola: Thresholds and Decision-Making
This week started off with me watching a demonstration of fractional flow reserve (FFR) during multivessel PCI. This very instructive case was transmitted live from Hammersmith Hospital in London and...
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Fractional Flow Reserve: Measuring Pressures in the Marketplace
Dr. Andreas Gruentzig “I don’t know how anyone can do these procedures without measuring pressures!” That’s what Andreas Gruentzig, the father of coronary angioplasty, said to me back in 1985. He knew...
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Philips Buys Volcano: It’s About Money, Technology, and History
Rumors and theories about an acquisition of Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) had been circulating for quite some time: months, years even. The company seemed an obvious choice: it has an advanced...
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iFR and iFR Scout to be Featured in Live Case from Hammersmith
Dr. Justin Davies discusses value of using physiology-guided PCI If you’ve been wondering what iFR (Instant wave-Free Ratio) is, how it works, how it compares to FFR (Fractional Flow Reserve) and, most...
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COURAGE: Does 15-Year Data Have Any Clinical Relevance?
This past week saw publication of an update to the 2007 COURAGE trial which compared optimal medical therapy (OMT) to stenting (PCI) as the initial management strategy for stable coronary artery...
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AimRADIAL Masterclass V + FFR Workshop in Budapest
On September 22-23, 2016, the 5th Advanced International Masterclass on the Transradial Approach will be held in Budapest, Hungary. And this year, AimRADIAL will be preceded on September 21 by a...
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Interventional Cardiology Late-Breakers at ACC.17
Washington Convention Center Over the next three days, a voluminous amount of data will be presented, shared, and debated among an estimated 18,000 attendees of the annual meeting of the American...
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