U.S. Trends in Inpatient Utilization of Fractional Flow Reserve and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

“Without FFR, it's 100 percent certain we would have gone ahead with another stent. And aside from cost, it could have triggered an event during implantation, or restenosis or late thrombosis when the patient stopped his medicine after a year. The right answer in this case was medical therapy and follow-up.”

“It appears that more and more interventionalists are doing a physiological assessment of lesions through FFR and performing PCI only if it's indicated. Most importantly, they're avoiding unnecessary PCIs, no small achievement when you consider every PCI comes with its own set of complications.”