Differential stress-induced ischemic electrocardiographic changes in acute versus stable coronary syndromes with severely reduced fractional flow reserve (≤0.60)
Do-Yoon Kang, Ji Sung Lee, Cheol Whan Lee · 2026
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Do-Yoon Kang, Ji Sung Lee, and Cheol Whan Lee wrote a 2026 paper on heart artery narrowing and what heart tracings show under stress. Doctors use a pressure measure to judge how bad a narrowing is and whether a stent will help. The team studied patients whose pressure scores were very low, meaning severe narrowing.
They compared seventy-nine patients with a sudden heart event against those with stable disease. All of the sudden-event patients showed stress changes on their heart tracings, but four in ten stable patients showed none, despite the same severe scores. Other pressure readings taken at rest helped predict who would show changes. After stenting, pain eased most in patients who had shown the changes. The work warns that one number alone does not tell the whole story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Do-Yoon Kang, Ji Sung Lee, Cheol Whan Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |