Perfusion Echo vs FFR for the Assessment of LAD disease (V.1)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Correlation between Myocardial Contrast Echo Perfusion and Fractional Flow reserve in the Assessment of Left Anterior Descending artery disease.

• IRAS ID

  121400

• Contact name

  Ahmed Farag

• Contact email

  ahmed.farag@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  University hospital south manchester

• Research summary

  There is always a search for an accurate widely available non invasive test that can assess heart arteries narrowing. An echocardiogram is an ultrasound scan of the heart that produces pictures of the heart muscle, chambers, and valves. In some cases the pictures are obscured by the ribs or air in the lungs. In this case an echo contrast agent is used; whereby a dye is injected to improve quality of the pictures.
  This study aims to assess whether contrast echocardiography can be used to assess the significance of heart artery narrowings. This will be compared to a gold standard method of measuring significance of coronary artery disease(Fractional Flow Reserve).

• REC name

  North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  13/NW/0456

• Date of REC Opinion

  2 Jul 2013

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion