ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced that an analysis of the benefits to using a Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)-guided intervention strategy found that the technology can improve patient outcomes while saving millions of Euros. The analysis demonstrates that routine use of FFR could reduce the number of deaths and heart attacks of German citizens while also saving a potential 14,000,000€ in 2011 and 2012. The results of the economic analysis were announced at Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kardiologie in Mannheim, Germany.
