FFR in Everyday Use: The Case of Left Ventricular Dysfunction

Abstract

A 58-year old man with the history of hypertension was seen by a cardiologist for hypertension diagnosed three years before and treated by metoprolol succinate, valsartan, indapamide and amlodipine
Albeit the patient had had no angina ever and no non-invasive test had been performed for the evaluation of ischemic heart disease, a diagnostic coronary angiography using the transradial approach was performed to rule out coronary artery disease as a cause of left ventricular dysfunction
A planned recoronary angiography 6 months later showed subtotal in-stent restenosis in the BMS of the diagonal treated by plain old balloon angioplasty with satisfactory angiographic result, and no restenosis was found in the drug eluting stents of the left main and the right coronary arteries