Performing Fractional Flow Reserve Without Anticoagulation During Diagnostic Catheterization

Clinyx

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease

Treatments: Procedure: Fractional Flow Reserve

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00841932

CL-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety of performing fractional flow reserve (FFR) of the myocardium without using anticoagulation by performing a retrospective review of 100 consecutive patients who have undergone this procedure during diagnostic catheterization.

Full description

An experienced interventional cardiologist can perform FFR in a brief period of time. This procedure can safely be performed without anticoagulation, thereby lowering the associated procedural risks by avoiding the bleeding and groin complications that may occur with anticoagulation. Performing FFR without anticoagulation may also decrease facility costs as femoral artery closure can be performed using standard protocols for a diagnostic procedure, instead of standard protocols for an interventional procedure when a patient has been anticoagulated. Performing FFR without anticoagulation does not increase risk of injury to the coronary artery or thrombus in the coronary artery.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with moderate stenosis who underwent FFR without anticoagulation

Exclusion criteria

• Therapeutic anticoagulation

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Fractional Flow Reserve

Description:

Patients with suspected coronary artery disease undergoing FFR to assess physiological significance of stenosis

Treatment:

Procedure: Fractional Flow Reserve