Although medical therapy is the preferred first-line treatment for patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS), revascularization remains an important consideration. We present a review that identifies the three diagnostic technologies most important to guiding the decision to revascularize patients with CCS: (1) cardiac computed tomography, (2) intracoronary imaging, and (3) lesion-specific physiological guidance.
Keywords: cardiac computed tomography; chronic coronary syndrome; fractional flow reserve; instantaneous wave-free ratio; intravascular ultrasound; medical therapy; optical coherence tomography; revascularization.
International College of Angiology. This article is published by Thieme.