St. Jude Medical Release: Five Year Data From The FAME Trial Further Confirms The Sustained, Long Term Benefit Of FFR-Guided PCI Over Angiography-Guided Intervention

Data presented at the ESC Congress 2015 contributes to the growing body of long term clinical evidence supporting St. Jude Medical PressureWire Fractional Flow Reserve technology

ST. PAUL, Minn. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced that five year results from the landmark FAME trial (Fractional Flow Reserve vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) have confirmed the long term benefits of fractional flow reserve (FFR) in guiding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) over angiography alone. An analysis of the study’s five year follow up data confirms that in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease, FFR-guided PCI can contribute to reductions in all-cause mortality, cardiac mortality and an overall use of health care resources.

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