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Current guidelines recommend percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients planned for TAVI with stenoses of &gt;70% in the proximal segments of non-left main coronary arteries and in &gt;50% of left main stenoses. While the guidelines on myocardial revascularization clearly recommend functional assessment of coronary artery stenoses of less than 90% in the absence of non-invasive ischemia testing, a statement regarding invasive functional testing in AS patients with concomitant CAD is lacking in the recently published guideline on the management of valvular heart disease. This review aims to provide an overview of the hemodynamic background in AS patients, discusses and summarizes the current evidence of invasive functional testing in patients with severe AS, and gives a future perspective on the ongoing trials on that topic.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm12165414","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,21]],"date-time":"2023-08-21T01:46:56Z","timestamp":1692582416000},"page":"5414","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Invasive Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis in the TAVI Era"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Maren","family":"Weferling","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany"},{"name":"German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partnersite Rhein-Main, 10785 Berlin, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Won-Keun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany"},{"name":"German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partnersite Rhein-Main, 10785 Berlin, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"630","DOI":"10.1016\/S0735-1097(96)00563-3","article-title":"Clinical factors associated with calcific aortic valve disease. 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