Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy.

J Heart Lung Transplant

Department of Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Published: November 1999

We report a case of successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty guided from pressure-wire measurements in a transplanted patient. Fractional flow reserve, a lesion-specific, pressure-independent index of functional stenosis severity, was used to guide the intervention.

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