The physiological assessment of coronary stenoses is clinically important. In the catheterisation laboratory, most commonly the fractional flow reserve (FFR) and coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) are determined, using a pressure wire or a Doppler wire, respectively.
1,2 The combined measurement of coronary pressure and flow velocity determines the flow impediment caused by a coronary stenosis, independent of the state of microcirculation. Both the hyperaemic stenosis resistance (HSR) and dp
v50, which is derived from the diastolic flow velocity-pressure gradient (v-dp) relation, have been found to determine the haemodynamic significance of a coronary stenosis with a high accuracy.
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