FFR Technologies

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for fractional flow reserve (FFR) wires, catheters and systems used to measure blood flow across a coronary lesion to determine if a stent is needed or if the plaque stenosis can be treated medically. The section includes iFR, instantaneous wave-free ratio, systems used in the cath lab and noninvasive FFR technologies including computed tomography-FFR. This is also referred to as CT-FFR or FFR-CT.

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November 6, 2017 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a New Technology Ambulatory Payment ...

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November 3, 2017 — Acist Medical Systems Inc., a Bracco Group Company, announced the global launch of its Acist RXi Mini ...

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October 26, 2017 — Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc. announced that it will incorporate the HeartFlow FFRct (fractional ...

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August 28, 2017 — Philips Healthcare and HeartFlow Inc. announced they entered into a collaboration agreement to improve ...

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August 9, 2017 — HeartFlow Inc. announced that four Blue Cross Blue Shield companies have each issued a positive medical ...

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Philips released a new version of its iFR system that displays FFR readings as an overlay on live angiographic, angiogram images.
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The gold standard for assessing the hemodynamic significance of coronary lesions to determine if they should be ...

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News | CT Angiography (CTA)

July 12, 2017 — The American Medical Association (AMA) has granted a Category III Tracking Code for estimated coronary ...

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July 6, 2017 — GE Healthcare and HeartFlow Inc. announced at the annual scientific meeting of the Society of ...

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May 31, 2017 — Acist Medical Systems Inc. announced results from the ACIST-FFR Study demonstrating the consistent and ...

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May 30, 2017 — Early results from the independent, physician-sponsored FFR-Search Registry revealed an association ...

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MDBuyline analyst Tom Watson shares some of the most important trends in cardiac technology he saw at the 2017 American ...

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Philips Azurion angiography system, FFR for STEMI
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March 27, 2017 — Patients experiencing a major heart attack often have more than one clogged artery, but under current ...

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March 24, 2017 — At the 2017 American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session & Expo (ACC.17), Philips ...

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Justin Davies, MBBS, of Imperial College London, and Matthias Götberg, M.D, Ph.D., of Skane University Hospital, detail ...

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iFR, iFR vs. FFR, ACC late breaking trial, iFR-SWEDEHEART, DEFINE-FLAIR, Justin E. Davies,
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March 20, 2017 — For patients experiencing angina (chest pain) or a heart attack, instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) ...

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