Fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention is not a valid concept.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Accuracy of Computed Tomographic Angiography and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography-Acquired Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease.Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging · 2015
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2. Revascularization in stable coronary disease: evidence and uncertainties.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2018
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3. Coronary revascularization vs. medical therapy following coronary-computed tomographic angiography in patients with low-, intermediate- and high-risk coronary artery disease: results from the CONFIRM long-term registry.European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging · 2017
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4. Guest Editorial: Controversies in Fractional Flow Reserve.European cardiology · 2016
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5. Cardiac CT vs. Stress Testing in Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: Review and Expert Recommendations.Current cardiovascular imaging reports · 2015
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6. Multi-modality imaging: Bird's-eye view from the 2014 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2015
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7. The myth of the "vulnerable plaque": transitioning from a focus on individual lesions to atherosclerotic disease burden for coronary artery disease risk assessment.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2015
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8. Operational contemporary diagnostic reasoning.Autopsy & case reports
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9. Total coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden assessment by CT angiography for detecting obstructive coronary artery disease associated with myocardial perfusion abnormalities.Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
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