The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
Thermodilution-Derived Volumetric Resting Coronary Blood Flow Measurement in Humans
DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-20-01092
Emanuele Gallinoro1, MD, PhD; Alessandro Candreva2; Iginio Colaiori3; Monika Kodeboina4; Stephane Fournier5; Olivier Nelis6; Giuseppe Di Gioia7; Jeroen Sonck8; Marcel van't Veer9; Nico HJ Pijls10; Carlos Collet11; Bernard De Bruyne12;
1. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy 2. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium 3. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium 4.Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy 5. Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy; Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland 6. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium 7. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy 8. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy 9. Department of Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 10. Department of Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 11. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium 12. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Background Quantification of microvascular function requires the measurement of flow and resistance at rest and during hyperemia. Continuous intracoronary thermodilution accurately measures coronary flow during hyperemia.
Aims To study whether continuous coronary thermodilution using lower infusion rates also enables volumetric coronary blood flow measurements (in mL/min) at rest.
Methods In 59 patients (88 arteries), the ratio of distal to proximal coronary pressure (Pd/Pa), as well as absolute blood flow (in mL/min) by continuous thermodilution, were recorded using a pressure/temperature guide wire. Saline was infused at rates of 10 and 20 mL/min. In 27 arteries, Doppler average peak velocity (APV) was measured simultaneously. Pd/Pa, APV, thermodilution-derived coronary flow reserve (CFRthermo) and coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) were assessed. In 10 arteries, simultaneous recordings were obtained at saline infusion rates of 6, 8, 10 and 20 mL/min.
Results Compared to baseline, saline infusion at 10 mL/min did not change Pd/Pa (0.95±0.05 versus 0.94±0.05, p=0.49) nor APV (22±8 versus 23±8 cm/s, p=0.60); conversely, an infusion rate of 20 mL/min induced a decrease in Pd/Pa and an increase in APV. Stable thermodilution tracings were obtained during saline infusion at 8 and 10 mL/min, but not at 6 mL/min. Mean values of CFRthermo and CFVR were similar (2.78±0.91 versus 2.76±1.06, p=0.935) and their individual values correlated closely (r=0.89, 95%CI 0.78 - 0.95, p<0.001).
Conclusions In addition to hyperemic flow, continuous thermodilution can quantify absolute resting coronary blood flow; therefore it can be used to calculate coronary flow reserve and microvascular resistance reserve.
onary blood flow; therefore it can be used to calculate coronary flow reserve and microvascular resistance reserve.