Comprehensive Angiography-Derived Functional Assessment of Epicardial and Microvascular Coronary Disease. Correlation With Non-invasive Myocardial Stress Imaging

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Coronary angiography (CA) is poorly correlated with non-invasive myocardial stress imaging (NSI) and myocardial ischemia is often observed in patients with unobstructed coronary arteries. Moreover, the diagnostic performance of combined epicardial and microcirculatory angiography-derived physiological assessment and its correlation with NSI remains unknown. A total of 917 coronary vessels in 319 patients who underwent both CA and NSI were included in this multicenter observational retrospective analysis. Quantitative flow ratio (QFR) and angiography-derived index of microcirculatory resistance (IMRangio) analyses were performed to estimate coronary epicardial and microcirculatory function respectively. NSI demonstrated evidence of myocardial ischemia in 76% of the cases. IMRangio (36 [22 to 50] vs 29 [21 to 41], p <0.001) was significantly higher and QFR (0.92 [0.78 to 0.99] vs 0.97 [0.91 to 0.99], p <0.001) was significantly lower in vessels subtending ischemic territories. Overall, the diagnostic accuracy of QFR was moderate (area under the curve of receiver operating characteristic [AUCROC] 0.632 [95% confidence interval [CI] 0.589 to 0.674], p <0.0001) but it was higher in patients with normal microcirculatory function (AUCROC = 0.726 [95% CI 0.669 to 0.784], p <0.0001, p Value for AUCROC comparison = 0.009). Combined QFR/IMRangio assessment provided incremental diagnostic performance compared with the evaluation of epicardial or microcirculatory districts in isolation (p Value for AUC comparison <0.0001) and it was able to identify the predominant mechanism of myocardial ischemia in 77% of the patients with positive NSI. Our study suggests the value of a combined angiography-derived assessment of epicardial and microvascular function for the definition of the predominant mechanism of myocardial ischemia in patients with suspected coronary artery disease.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:217

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The American journal of cardiology - 217(2024) vom: 15. Apr., Seite 144-152

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Della Mora, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Portolan, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Terentes-Printzios, Dimitrios [VerfasserIn]
Vicerè, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Andreaggi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Biasin, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Pesarini, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Tavella, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Maffeis, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Tafciu, Elvin [VerfasserIn]
Benfari, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Oikonomou, Dimitrios [VerfasserIn]
Gkini, Konstantia-Paraskevi [VerfasserIn]
Galante, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Tsioufis, Konstantinos [VerfasserIn]
Vlachopoulos, Charalambos [VerfasserIn]
Leone, Antonio Maria [VerfasserIn]
Ribichini, Flavio [VerfasserIn]
Scarsini, Roberto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Coronary physiology assessment
Index of microcirculatory resistance
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Myocardial stress imaging
Observational Study
QFR
SPECT
Stress-echocardiography

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Date Completed 03.04.2024

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.amjcard.2024.01.037

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369209281