Coronary interventions

Angiography-derived functional assessment of non-culprit coronary stenoses in primary percutaneous coronary intervention

EuroIntervention 2020;15:e1594-e1601. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-18-01165

Francesco Lauri
Francesco Maria Lauri1, MD; Fernando Macaya1, MD; Hernán Mejía-Rentería1, MD; Sonoka Goto1, MD; Julian Yeoh2, MBBS, FRACP; Masafumi Nakayama3, MD, PhD; Alicia Quirós4, PhD; Catherine Liontou1, MD, PhD; Nilesh Pareek2, MA, MBBS; Antonio Fernández-Ortíz1, MD, PhD; Carlos Macaya1, MD; Philip MacCarthy2, MBChB, PhD; Javier Escaned1, MD, PhD
1. Hospital Clinico San Carlos IDISSC and Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; 2. King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 3. Toda Chuo General Hospital, Toda, Japan; 4. Department of Mathematics, Universidad de León, Leon, Spain

Aims: Functional assessment of non-culprit lesions (NCL) in patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease constitutes an unmet need. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of quantitative flow ratio (QFR) in the functional assessment of NCL during the acute phase of STEMI.

Methods and results: This was a retrospective, observational, multicentre study including patients with STEMI and staged fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment of NCL. QFR in NCL was calculated from the coronary angiogram acquired during primary PCI in a blinded fashion with respect to FFR. The diagnostic value of QFR in the STEMI population was compared with a propensity score-matched population of stable angina patients. Eighty-two patients (91 NCL) were included. Target lesions were of both angiographic and functional (mean FFR 0.82±0.09) intermediate severity. The diagnostic performance of QFR was high (AUC 0.91 [95% CI: 0.85-0.97]) and similar to that observed in the matched control population (AUC 0.91 vs 0.94, p=0.5). The diagnostic accuracy of QFR was very high (>95%) in those vessels (61.5%) with QFR values out of a ROC-defined “grey zone” (0.75-0.85). A hybrid FFR/QFR approach (FFR only when QFR is in the grey zone) would adequately classify 96.7% of NCL, avoiding 58.5% of repeat diagnostic procedures.

Conclusions: QFR has a good diagnostic accuracy in assessing the functional relevance of NCL during primary PCI, similar to the accuracy observed in stable patients.

Sign in to read and download the full article

Forgot your password?

No account yet?
Sign up for free!

Create my pcr account

Join us for free and access thousands of articles from EuroIntervention, as well as presentations, videos, cases from PCRonline.com

steminon-invasive imagingfractional flow reservecoronary artery disease
Coronary interventionsSTEMI
Read next article
Myocardial damage after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by use of bivalirudin or heparin: a DANAMI-3 substudy

Latest news