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  • Title: Pressure-derived estimations of coronary flow reserve are inferior to flow-derived coronary flow reserve as diagnostic and risk stratification tools.
    Author: Wijntjens GWM, van Lavieren MA, van de Hoef TP, Echavarría-Pinto M, Meuwissen M, Stegehuis VE, Murai T, Escaned J, Piek JJ.
    Journal: Int J Cardiol; 2019 Mar 15; 279():6-11. PubMed ID: 30482445.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Pressure-derived coronary flow reserve (CFRpres) and pressure-bounded CFR (CFRpb) enable simple estimation of CFR from routine pressure measurements, but have been inadequately validated. We sought to compare CFRpres and CFRpb against flow-derived CFR (CFRflow) in terms of diagnostic accuracy, as well as regarding their comparative prognostic relevance. METHODS: We evaluated 453 intermediate coronary lesions with intracoronary pressure and flow measurements. CFR was defined as hyperemic flow/baseline flow. The lower bound (CFRpres) and upper bound of CFRpb were defined as √[(ΔPhyperemia) / (ΔPrest)] and [(ΔPhyperemia) / (ΔPrest)], respectively. Long-term follow-up (median: 11.8-years) was performed in 153 lesions deferred from treatment to document the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) defined as a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction and target vessel revascularization. CFR < 2.0 was considered abnormal. RESULTS: CFRpb was normal or abnormal in 56.7% of stenoses, and indeterminate in 43.3% of stenoses. There was a poor diagnostic agreement between CFRpres and CFRpb with CFRflow (overall agreement: 45.5% and 71.6% of vessels, respectively). There was equivalent risk for long-term MACE for lesions with abnormal versus normal CFRpres (Breslow p = 0.562), whereas vessels with abnormal CFRflow were significantly associated with increased long-term MACE (Breslow p < 0.001). For vessels where CFRpb was abnormal or normal, there was equivalent risk for long-term MACE for vessels with abnormal versus normal CFRpb (Breslow p = 0.194), whereas vessels with abnormal CFRflow were associated with increased MACE rates over time (Breslow p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Pressure-derived estimations of CFR poorly agree with flow-derived measurements of CFR, which may explain the inferior association with long-term MACE as compared to flow-derived CFR.
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