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When evaluating and treating patients with a coronary artery stenosis, cardiologists must answer three important questions. As a physiologist: “What is the effect of this stenosis on coronary blood flow and myocardial function?”; as a clinician: “Is this lesion responsible for the patient’s symptoms?”; and finally as an interventionalist: “Will revascularization of this artery improve the patient?”
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Pijls, N.H.J., De Bruyne, B. (2000). Introduction. In: Coronary Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 195. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9564-3_1
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