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.

The first dataset - HeartFlow’s largest study to date - studied over 11,800 patients and enables physicians to understand a patient's burden of coronary plaque compared to their age and sex-matched peers

News | SCCT

New Plaque Clinical Data Provides Additional Insights on Anatomy and Physiology in Clinical Decision Making for Patients

July 22, 2022 — HeartFlow, Inc., the leader in revolutionizing precision heart care, released two datasets utilizing ...

July 22, 2022

News | ACC

CathWorks Presents New Data and Latest Innovations at ACC 2022

March 31, 2022 – CathWorks has announced that the results of its most recent outcomes study on the CathWorks FFRangio sy ...

March 31, 2022

News | Cardiovascular Business

HeartFlow Announces CEO Transition

March 2, 2022 – HeartFlow, Inc. has announced that John Farquhar has been appointed President and Chief Executive ...

March 02, 2022

Videos | Cardiac Imaging

VIDEO: The Role of FFR-CT Under the New Chest Pain Evaluation Guidelines

Interview with Campbell Rogers, M.D., chief medical officer of HeartFlow which has developed a CT image-based fractional ...

February 01, 2022

Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

VIDEO: FFR-CT May Aid Patient Assessments in the COVID Era

Campbell Rogers, M.D., chief medical officer of HeartFlow, explains how hospitals are using CT image-based fractional ...

February 01, 2022

Videos | Cardiac Imaging

VIDEO: Why the ASNC Did Not Endorse the 2021 Chest Pain Guidelines

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) President Dennis Calnon, M.D., MASNC, FASE, FSCCT, director of cardiac ...

February 01, 2022

$The Pie Medical Imaging angiography-based vessel fractional flow reserve (CAAS vFFR) technology can use angiography imaging alone to assess FFR without the need for pressure wires or adenosine.$

News | FFR Technologies

European Trial Evaluates Angiography Vessel Fractional Flow Reserve (vFFR) Guided PCI Versus Conventional FFR

January 4, 2022 - Pie Medical Imaging (PMI), a global leader in cardiac imaging, part of the Esaote Group, recently ...

January 04, 2022

RSIP Vision introduced a new coronary artery modeling technology that enables quick and accurate reconstruction of the coronary vasculature during angiography into a 3D model in the cath lab.

News | Cath Lab

New RSIP Vision Technology Aids Noninvasive Planning of Coronary Intervention

December 14, 2021 — RSIP Vision, a medical imaging company applying advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and computer ...

December 14, 2021

An example of HeartFlow's FFR-CT assessment, which shows areas of low blood flow based on computation fluid dynamics from a CT scan of the heart. The vendor's new PreRead software will use AI to clearly and reproducibly identify areas of ischemia due to coronary artery occlusion and act as a second set of eyes for emergency rooms evlautaing chest pain patients.

News | FFR Technologies

HeartFlow Files for FDA Review to Evaluate the Coronary Occlusions and Plaque

December 13, 2021 - HeartFlow Inc., the leader in revolutionizing precision heart care, today announced it has submitted ...

December 13, 2021

$Abbott's fractional flow reserve (FFR) system. #TCT #TCT21 #FAME3$

News | FFR Technologies

FAME 3 Study Finds FFR Guided PCI Did Not Perform as Well at One-year Compared to Bypass Surgery

November 9, 2021 — The primary results of the Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation ...

November 09, 2021

News | FFR Technologies

QFR Technology for Advanced Coronary Artery Disease Leads to Improved Outcomes

November 9, 2021 — Use of a novel technique called the quantitative flow ratio (QFR) to precisely identify and measure ...

November 09, 2021

News | FFR Technologies

Systematic FFR Assessment Did Not Add Benefit During Diagnostic Angiography

September 8, 2021 — Adding systematic fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment to coronary angiography does not reduce ...

September 08, 2021

The CathWorks angiography image derived FFR assessment system has received national reimbursement approval in Japan. The system uses a rotational angiography image dataset taken while the patient is in the cath lab to quickly reconstruct a 3-D coronary tree showing FFR numbers for all of the artery segments.

News | FFR Technologies

CathWorks FFRangio System Receives National Reimbursement Approval in Japan

July 26, 2021 – CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the ...

July 26, 2021

$An example of the Medis QCA angiography imaging derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment. This technology removes the need for pressure wires and adenosine used in traditional FFR assessments of the coronary arteries.$

News | Cath Lab

Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) Study Looks at Impact on Appropriateness of Revascularization in the PIONEER-IV Trial

July 22, 2021 — Medis Medical Imaging is partnering with CORRIB Core Lab and Sinomed in randomized clinical trial of ...

July 22, 2021

An example of HeartFlow's FFR-CT analysis of blockage severity in a patient's coronary vessels based on a cardiac CT scan.

News | FFR Technologies

HeartFlow Becomes Publicly Traded Company in Merger With Longview Acquisition Corp.

July 15, 2021 — HeartFlow, which has commercialized noninvasive computed tomography derived fractional flow reserve (FFR ...

July 15, 2021