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William F. Fearon is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of medicine, with a significant emphasis on surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of Fearon's work include coronary interventions and diagnostics, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, acute myocardial infarction research, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, renal and vascular pathologies, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, and renal transplantation outcomes and treatments.

Fearon has published extensively in several prominent journals. The frequent publication venues associated with their work are:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • The American Journal of Cardiology
  • Annual Review of Medicine

Recent papers by William F. Fearon include:

  • Association of Pretransplant Coronary Heart Disease Testing With Early Kidney Transplant Outcomes, 2023, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Angiography-Derived Fractional Flow Reserve: Newer Data and Future Directions, 2024, The American Journal of Cardiology
  • Medical Therapy Alone, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, or Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease, 2024, Annual Review of Medicine
  • Current Evidence-Based Treatment of Angina With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries (ANOCA), 2025, Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
  • Trends in Coronary Artery Disease Screening before Kidney Transplantation, 2021, Kidney360

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fearon include:

  • Daniel Amponsah
  • Frederik M. Zimmermann
  • Nils P. Johnson
  • Alan C. Yeung
  • Takuya Mizukami

Best Publications

  • Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients.

    Martin B Leon;Craig R. Smith;Michael J. Mack;Michael J. Mack;Rajendra Makkar

  • Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention

    Bernard De Bruyne;Uwe Siebert;Fumiaki Ikeno;Volker Klauss

  • Fractional flow reserve-guided PCI versus medical therapy in stable coronary disease

    Bernard De Bruyne;Bindu Kalesan;Emanuele Barbato;Zsolt Piroth

  • Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Guiding Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: 2-Year Follow-Up of the FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation) Study

    Nico H.J. Pijls;William F. Fearon;Pim A.L. Tonino;Uwe Siebert;Uwe Siebert

  • Angiographic Versus Functional Severity of Coronary Artery Stenoses in the FAME Study: Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation

    Pim A.L. Tonino;William F. Fearon;Bernard De Bruyne;Keith G. Oldroyd

  • Fractional Flow Reserve–Guided PCI for Stable Coronary Artery Disease

    Bernard De Bruyne;William F. Fearon;Nico H.J. Pijls;Emanuele Barbato

  • Five-Year Outcomes with PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve

    P. Xaplanteris;S. Fournier;N. H. J. Pijls;W. F. Fearon

  • Standardized End Point Definitions for Coronary Intervention Trials: The Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus Document

    Hector M. Garcia-Garcia;Eugène P. McFadden;Andrew Farb;Roxana Mehran

  • Physiological Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Committee on Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization, Council on Clinical Cardiology

    Morton J. Kern;Amir Lerman;Jan Willen Bech;Bernard De Bruyne

  • Novel Index for Invasively Assessing the Coronary Microcirculation

    William F. Fearon;Leora B. Balsam;H. M. Omar Farouque;Robert C. Robbins

  • Prognostic value of fractional flow reserve: linking physiologic severity to clinical outcomes.

    Nils P. Johnson;Gábor G. Tóth;Dejian Lai;Hongjian Zhu

  • Five-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement.

    Raj R. Makkar;Vinod H. Thourani;Michael J. Mack;Susheel K. Kodali

  • Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guidance of PCI in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (FAME): 5-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

    Lokien X van Nunen;Frederik M Zimmermann;Pim A L Tonino;Emanuele Barbato

  • Vascular Complications After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the PARTNER (Placement of AoRTic TraNscathetER Valve) Trial

    Philippe Généreux;John G. Webb;Lars G. Svensson;Susheel K. Kodali

  • Invasive Assessment of the Coronary Microcirculation. Superior Reproducibility and Less Hemodynamic Dependence of Index of Microcirculatory Resistance Compared With Coronary Flow Reserve

    Martin K.C. Ng;Alan C. Yeung;William F. Fearon

  • Economic Evaluation of Fractional Flow Reserve–Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Multivessel Disease

    William F. Fearon;Bernhard Bornschein;Pim A.L. Tonino;Raffaella M. Gothe

  • Prognostic value of the Index of Microcirculatory Resistance measured after primary percutaneous coronary intervention

    William F. Fearon;Adrian F. Low;Andy S. Yong;Ross McGeoch

  • Coronary pressure measurement after stenting predicts adverse events at follow-up: A multicenter registry

    Nico H.J. Pijls;Volker Klauss;Uwe Siebert;Eric Powers

  • Multicenter Core Laboratory Comparison of the Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio and Resting Pd/Pa With Fractional Flow Reserve: The RESOLVE Study

    Allen Jeremias;Akiko Maehara;Philippe Généreux;Kaleab N. Asrress

  • Standardized End Point Definitions for Coronary Intervention Trials

    Hector M. Garcia-Garcia;Eugene P. McFadden;Andrew Farb;Roxana Mehran

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan C. Yeung
Alan C. Yeung Stanford University
Bernard De Bruyne
Bernard De Bruyne Cardiovascular Center Aalst
Nico H.J. Pijls
Nico H.J. Pijls Eindhoven University of Technology
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Peter J. Fitzgerald Stanford University
Paul G. Yock
Paul G. Yock Stanford University
Martin B. Leon
Martin B. Leon Columbia University Medical Center
Emanuele Barbato
Emanuele Barbato University of Naples Federico II
Colin Berry
Colin Berry University of Glasgow
Keith G. Oldroyd
Keith G. Oldroyd Golden Jubilee National Hospital
D. Craig Miller
D. Craig Miller Stanford University

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