Pressure-bounded coronary flow reserve to assess the extent of microvascular dysfunction in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction.

CONCLUSIONS: Pb-CFR can identify microvascular dysfunction in patients after STEMI and provided superior diagnostic performance compared to thermodilution-derived CFR in predicting MVO. However, IMR was superior to both pb-CFR and thermodilution-derived CFR and consequently, IMR was the most accurate in predicting all of the studied CMR endpoints of myocardial injury after PPCI. PMID: 31854300 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: EuroIntervention - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Tags: EuroIntervention Source Type: research