Myocardial Contrast Stress Echo Versus Fractional Flow Reserve: A Fair Fight Among Ischemic Tests?

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Aug;9(8):e005327. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005327.

Authors

Morton J Kern¹, Arnold H Seto²

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Medicine (M.J.K.) and Cardiology (A.H.S.), Veterans Administration Long Beach Health Care System, CA; and Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (M.J.K., A.H.S.). mkern@uci.edu.
² From the Departments of Medicine (M.J.K.) and Cardiology (A.H.S.), Veterans Administration Long Beach Health Care System, CA; and Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (M.J.K., A.H.S.).

PMID: 27511973
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005327

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; angiography; artifact; coronary stenosis; myocardial ischemia.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Coronary Angiography
Coronary Stenosis
Echocardiography, Stress*
Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial*