1. to investigate the feasibility and diagnostic performance of contrast quantitative flow ratio (QFR) for identifying the functional significance of intermediate degree stenotic lesions in all-comer patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) including presentation of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with non-culprit lesion. 2. to compare the changes of contrast QFR and fractional flow reserve (FFR) according to severity of percent diameter stenosis (%DS) 3. to evaluate prognostic implication of contrast QFR in comparison with FFR
Despite potential clinical benefits and abundant evidences of FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), adoption rate of FFR is still low in real world practice, most likely due to use of additional resource and to concern about side effects of hyperemic agent. Therefore, several tools to derive FFR non-invasively has been developed based on computational fluid dynamics to overcome the limitations. One of the novel methods, the contrast quantitative flow ratio (QFR) is a computation of FFR based on 3-dimensional quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) combined with Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) frame counts adjustment without hyperemic agent infusion. Although diagnostic performance of contrast QFR for evaluation of functional significance, using FFR as reference standard, is well validated in patients with stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD), there have been lack of evidence regarding the reliability of QFR for non-culprit stenosis in patients with AMI. Therefore, the investigators sought to investigate the feasibility and diagnostic performance of contrast QFR for identifying the functional significance of coronary stenosis in all-comer patients with CAD. In addition, prognostic implication of contrast QFR will be also compared with that of FFR.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
524
QFR measurement in order to evaluate functional significance of epicardial stenosis and to compare the response of QFR for worsening stenosis severity, FFR value as reference standard
Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
Daegu, South Korea
Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
Goyang-si, South Korea
Chosun University Hospital
Gwangju, South Korea
Samsung Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea
Diagnostic accuracy of QFR
Diagnostic accuracy of contrast QFR to predict FFR lower than 0.8
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Vessel-related composite outcome
a composite of cardiac death, vessel-related myocardial infarction, and vessel-related ischemia driven revascularization
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 year
Sensitivity of QFR
Sensitivity of contrast QFR to predict FFR lower than 0.8
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Specificity of QFR
Specificity of contrast QFR to predict FFR lower than 0.8
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
Correlation between QFR and FFR
Correlation between QFR and FFR
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 6 months
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Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, South Korea