Diagnostic performance of quantitative flow ratio in prospectively enrolled patients : An individual patient-data meta-analysis

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OBJECTIVES: We aimed to provide robust performance estimates for quantitative flow ratio (QFR) in assessment of intermediary coronary lesions.

BACKGROUND: Angiography-based functional lesion assessment by QFR may appear as a cost saving and safe approach to expand the use of physiology-guided percutaneous coronary interventions. QFR was proven feasible and showed good diagnostic performance in mid-sized off-line and on-line studies with fractional flow reserve (FFR) as reference standard.

METHODS: We performed a collaborative individual patient-data meta-analysis of all available prospective studies with paired assessment of QFR and FFR using the CE-marked QFR application. The main outcome was agreement of QFR and FFR using a two-step analysis strategy with a multilevel mixed model accounting for study and center level variation.

RESULTS: Of 16 studies identified, four studies had prospective enrollment and provided patient level data reaching a total of 819 patients and 969 vessels with paired FFR and QFR: FAVOR Pilot (n = 73); WIFI II (n = 170); FAVOR II China (n = 304) and FAVOR II Europe-Japan (n = 272). We found an overall agreement (mean difference 0.009 ± 0.068, I2 = 39.6) of QFR with FFR. The diagnostic performance was sensitivity 84% (95%CI: 77-90, I2 = 70.1), specificity 88% (95%CI: 84-91, I2 = 60.1); positive predictive value 80% (95%CI: 76-85, I2 = 33.4), and negative predictive value 95% (95%CI: 93-96, I2 = 75.9).

CONCLUSIONS: Diagnostic performance of QFR was good with FFR as reference in this meta-analysis of high quality studies. QFR could provide an easy, safe, and cost-effective solution for functional evaluation of coronary artery stenosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:94

Enthalten in:

Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions - 94(2019), 5 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 693-701

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Westra, Jelmer [VerfasserIn]
Tu, Shengxian [VerfasserIn]
Campo, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Shubin [VerfasserIn]
Matsuo, Hitoshi [VerfasserIn]
Qu, Xinkai [VerfasserIn]
Koltowski, Lukasz [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Yunxiao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Tommy [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Junqing [VerfasserIn]
Andersen, Birgitte Krogsgaard [VerfasserIn]
Eftekhari, Ashkan [VerfasserIn]
Christiansen, Evald Høj [VerfasserIn]
Escaned, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Wijns, William [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Holm, Niels Ramsing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Coronary artery disease
Fractional flow reserve
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Quantitative coronary angiography
Quantitative flow ratio
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 25.08.2020

Date Revised 25.08.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ccd.28283

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295851600