Coronary interventions - Mini focus: Physiology indices

Continuous intracoronary versus standard intravenous infusion of adenosine for fractional flow reserve assessment: the HYPEREMIC trial

EuroIntervention 2020;16:560-567. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01067

Ahmed Elghamaz
Ahmed Elghamaz1, BCh, MRCP; Aung Myat2,3, MD, MRCP; Adam de Belder2, MD, FRCP; Damien Collison4, MB; Kim Cocks5, PhD; Gregg W. Stone6, MD; Keith Oldroyd4, MD, FRCP
1. Cardiology Department, Northwick Park Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2. Sussex Cardiac Centre, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom; 3. Division of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom; 4. West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 5. KCStats Consultancy, Leeds, United Kingdom; 6. Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a continuous intracoronary (IC) adenosine infusion, administered through the novel HYPEREM™IC over-the-wire microcatheter, to measure fractional flow reserve (FFR).

Methods and results: The HYPEREMIC trial was a randomised, non-inferiority, crossover study in which patients with intermediate coronary lesions were enrolled for sequential pressure wire studies. FFR was measured using intravenous (IV) (140-180 mcg/kg/min) versus continuous non-weight-adjusted IC (360 mcg/min) adenosine. Patients were randomised and blinded to the order in which they received the adenosine, separated by a washout period. The primary endpoint was the mean hyperaemic FFR. Forty-one patients were enrolled at three UK sites between June and November 2016. The mean (standard deviation) FFR was 0.82 (±0.09) after IC versus 0.84 (±0.09) after IV adenosine. The difference of –0.02 (95% confidence interval [CI]: –0.03 to –0.01) confirmed the non-inferiority (margin <0.05) of IC to IV adenosine. Intracoronary adenosine was associated with a shorter mean time to maximal hyperaemia (difference –44 [95% CI: –59 to –29] seconds; p<0.0001). Chest discomfort was reported in 32/41 (78.0%) patients during IV adenosine versus 12/41 (29.3%) patients during IC adenosine.

Conclusions: Continuous IC adenosine was a reliable, faster and better tolerated method of achieving maximal hyperaemia compared to IV adenosine.

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