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In addition to feasibility and clinical relevance, reproducibility (or absence of variability) is another crucial characteristic of any new diagnostic test. A measurement which is either difficult to obtain, of little clinical relevance, or highly variable, would be clinical nonsense.
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Pijls, N.H.J., De Bruyne, B. (2000). Independence of Fractional Flow Reserve of Hemodynamic Loading Conditions. In: Coronary Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 195. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9564-3_9
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