Influence of routine assessment of fractional flow reserve on decision making during coronary interventions / Influência da avaliação rotineira do fluxo fracionado de reserva durante intervenções coronárias percutâneas na estratégia terapêutica

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2006

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BACKGROUND: In complex and multivessel coronary artery disease, it is often difficult to assess which lesions are associated with reversible ischemia and should be stented. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a well established methodology to indicate which lesions are culprit or not. Yet, frequently the selection of lesions to be stented is based on the angiogram alone. The main aim of this study in patients admitted for elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was to evaluate the percentage of change in the initial therapeutic plan if decision is based on FFR measurement rather than on angiographic assessment. METHODS: All patients scheduled for elective PCI between October 2004 and April 2005 were included in the study except those with chronic total occlusion. Two hundred and fifty patients and 471 arteries with a stenosis ≥ 50% by visual estimation and initially selected to be stented were assessed by FFR measurements. Before PCI, 3 cardiologists independently reviewed the diagnostic angiogram and classified lesions as those that should be treated by PCI by visual assessment and those that should not be treated. Next, the decision to stent was based upon FFR measurement. If FFR was <0.75, actual stenting was performed; if FFR was ≥ 0.75, no interventional treatment was given. RESULTS: It was possible to perform optimal pressure measurements and FFR determinations in 452 (96%) lesions. Mean diameter stenosis was 62 ± 12% and average FFR 0.67 ± 0.17 for the entire group. In 68% of the stenoses initial therapeutic strategy as assessed from the angiogram was followed and in 32% there was a change in the planned approach based on FFR. In 100 stenoses (22%) PCI planned on the basis of angiography was deferred, and in 44 stenoses (10%) revascularization was performed although such stenosis was not considered as ischemia-related on the angiogram. In 48% of the patients there was at least one lesion in which the treatment decision was changed after physiologic measurements. CONCLUSIONS: In this prospective, non-selective, but complete study representing the real world of PCI, 32% of the coronary stenoses and 48% of patients would have received a different treatment if solely the visual assessment by angiography was followed, stressing the utility of physiologic assessment in refining decision making during PCI.

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transluminal angioplastia transluminal percutânea coronária angioplasty percutaneous coronary adult adulto arteriosclerose coronária coronary artheriosclerosis contenedores stents circulação coronária/fisiologia coronary circulation/phisiology

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