Introduction to the Navvus pressure micro catheter

Target Audience

• Interventional cardiologists
• Interventional cardiology fellows
• Cardiologists taking care of patients with coronary artery disease
• Catheterisation laboratory nursing and technical staff and healthcare professionals

• Windecker S, Kolh P, Alfonso F, et al. 2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization: The Task Force on Myocardial Revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur Heart J. 2014;35:2541–2619.
• Pijls NH, Tanaka N, Fearon WF. Functional assessment of coronary stenosis: can we live without it? Eur. Heart J. 2013;34:1335-1344.
• Diletti R, Van Mieghem NM, Valgimigli M, et al. Rapid exchange ultra-thin microcatheter using fibre-optic sensing technology for measurement of intracoronary fractional flow reserve. EuroIntervention. 2015;11:428-432.

Learning Objectives

This case is to inform and educate interventional cardiologists on:

• Strategy selection to approach significant true bifurcation lesions
• Implementation of FFR assessment in bifurcation lesions
• Implementation of FFR in side-branch assessment after provisional stenting
• Use of microcatheter based FFR technology

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