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SUBMITTER: Mathew RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6553476 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mathew Roshin C RC Gottbrecht Matthew M Salerno Michael M
Interventional cardiology clinics 20180629 3
Computed tomography angiography (CTA) has played a significant role in evaluation of coronary artery disease in the last decade and has demonstrated high sensitivity and negative predictive values. However, the positive predictive value as compared with invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) is limited. CT-FFR has emerged as a disruptive noninvasive technology with higher specificity and diagnostic accuracy for detection of hemodynamically significant coronary lesions as compared with invasive F ...[more]