Impact of Routine Fractional Flow Reserve on Management Decision and 1-Year Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes: PRIME-FFR (Insights From the POST-IT [Portuguese Study on the Evaluation of FFR-Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease] and R3F [French FFR Registry] Integrated Multicenter Registries - Implementation of FFR [Fractional Flow Reserve] in Routine Practice) [Coronary Physiologic Assessment and Imaging]

Conclusions—
Routine integration of FFR into the decision-making process of ACS patients with obstructive coronary artery disease is associated with a high reclassification rate of treatment (38%). A management strategy guided by FFR, divergent from that suggested by angiography, including revascularization deferral, is safe in ACS.

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - June 14, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Van Belle, E., Baptista, S.-B., Raposo, L., Henderson, J., Rioufol, G., Santos, L., Pouillot, C., Ramos, R., Cuisset, T., Cale, R., Teiger, E., Jorge, E., Belle, L., Machado, C., Barreau, D., Costa, M., Hanssen, M., Oliveira, E., Besnard, C., Costa, J., D Tags: Angiography, Diagnostic Testing, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Mortality/Survival Coronary Physiologic Assessment and Imaging Source Type: research