Rationale and design of the pullback pressure gradient (PPG) global registry

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INTRODUCTION: Diffuse disease has been identified as one of the main reasons leading to low post-PCI fractional flow reserve (FFR) and residual angina after PCI. Coronary pressure pullbacks allow for the evaluation of hemodynamic coronary artery disease (CAD) patterns. The pullback pressure gradient (PPG) is a novel metric that quantifies the distribution and magnitude of pressure losses along the coronary artery in a focal-to-diffuse continuum.

AIM: The primary objective is to determine the predictive capacity of the PPG for post-PCI FFR.

METHODS: This prospective, large-scale, controlled, investigator-initiated, multicenter study is enrolling patients with at least 1 lesion in a major epicardial vessel with a distal FFR ≤ 0.80 intended to be treated by PCI. The study will include 982 subjects. A standardized physiological assessment will be performed pre-PCI, including the online calculation of PPG from FFR pullbacks performed manually. PPG quantifies the CAD pattern by combining several parameters from the FFR pullback curve. Post-PCI physiology will be recorded using a standardized protocol with FFR pullbacks. We hypothesize that PPG will predict optimal PCI results (post-PCI FFR ≥ 0.88) with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) ≥ 0.80. Secondary objectives include patient-reported and clinical outcomes in patients with focal vs. diffuse CAD defined by the PPG. Clinical follow-up will be collected for up to 36 months, and an independent clinical event committee will adjudicate events.

RESULTS: Recruitment is ongoing and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2023.

CONCLUSION: This international, large-scale, prospective study with pre-specified powered hypotheses will determine the ability of the preprocedural PPG index to predict optimal revascularization assessed by post-PCI FFR. In addition, it will evaluate the impact of PPG on treatment decisions and the predictive performance of PPG for angina relief and clinical outcomes.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:265

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American heart journal - 265(2023) vom: 25. Nov., Seite 170-179

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Englisch

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Munhoz, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Collet, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Mizukami, Takuya [VerfasserIn]
Yong, Andy [VerfasserIn]
Leone, Antonio Maria [VerfasserIn]
Eftekhari, Ashkan [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Brian [VerfasserIn]
da Costa, Bruno R [VerfasserIn]
Berry, Colin [VerfasserIn]
Collison, Damien [VerfasserIn]
Perera, Divaka [VerfasserIn]
Christiansen, Evald Høj [VerfasserIn]
Rivero, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Zimmermann, Frederik M [VerfasserIn]
Ando, Hirohiko [VerfasserIn]
Matsuo, Hitoshi [VerfasserIn]
Nakayama, Masafumi [VerfasserIn]
Escaned, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Sonck, Jeroen [VerfasserIn]
Sakai, Koshiro [VerfasserIn]
Adjedj, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Desta, Liyew [VerfasserIn]
van Nunen, Lokien X [VerfasserIn]
West, Nick E J [VerfasserIn]
Fournier, Stephane [VerfasserIn]
Storozhenko, Tatyana [VerfasserIn]
Amano, Tetsuya [VerfasserIn]
Engstrøm, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Shinke, Toshiro [VerfasserIn]
Biscaglia, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Fearon, William F [VerfasserIn]
Ali, Ziad [VerfasserIn]
De Bruyne, Bernard [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Nils P [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 12.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.ahj.2023.07.016

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NLM361102941