Cardiologists at El Camino Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute are taking advantage of advancements in medical technology to offer patients more options for treating heart disease, and to more precisely determine whether to intervene. In a recent overview and progress report presented to the hospital’s Board of Directors, the Institute’s Medical Director Dominick Curatola, MD, said the Institute is using such advanced technology as Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) and is leveraging data from landmark studies like the FAME (Fractional flow reserve (FFR) vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) and PROSPECT (Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree) studies to drive changes in clinical practice that will improve patient outcomes, drive preventative therapy, and reduce costs by avoiding unnecessary procedures.