Clinical trial NCT03030495: Registry of Comprehensive Imaging and Physiological Evaluation of Deferred Lesions Based on FFR
Official title: IMaging and Physiologic Predictors of Atherosclerotic Progression in Deferred Lesions With Contemporary Medical Treatment Based on Fractional Flow Reserve-guided Strategy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Ischemic Heart Disease
Keywords: Ischemic Heart Disease
Stable angina
Fractional flow reserve
Index of Microcirculatory Resistance
Coronary Flow Reserve
Intravascular Imaging
Lead sponsor: Samsung Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Seoul National University Hospital
name: Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
name: Ulsan University Hospital
name: Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
First posted: 2017-01-25
Enrollment: 1400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with intermediate degree of stenosis (30-70% stenosis by visual estimation) with fractional flow reserve of \>0.80 in major epicardial coronary artery amenable to stent implantation or vessel size ≥2.5 mm.

Brief summary: 1. To compare the risk of atherosclerotic lesion progression and subsequent patient-oriented composite outcomes (all-cause mortality, any MI, or any Ischemia-driven repeat revascularization) between deferred lesions with or without over microvascular disease, defined as physiological classification
2. To explore independent predictors of atherosclerotic lesion progression in deferred lesions based on fractional flow reserve-guided strategy and treated by contemporary medical treatment

Detailed description: The coronary artery system has 3 components with different functions: conductive epicardial coronary arteries, arterioles, and capillaries. When any one of these systems fails, myocardial ischemia can occur. Therefore, the presence of epicardial coronary artery stenosis is not necessarily a prerequisite for ischemic heart disease (IHD). Although it has not been established that microvascular disease is independent of macrovascular disease, clinical studies have consistently shown that the presence of microvascular disease is an independent predictor of poor clinical outcomes, especially in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI).

The pressure-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) index has become a standard invasive method to evaluate the functional significance of epicardial coronary artery stenosis, and clinical outcomes of FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have proven to be better than those of angiography-guided PCI or medical treatment. Although FFR-guided PCI has been reported to improve patient outcomes and FFR is now regarded as the gold-standard invasive method to assess the functional significance of coronary artery stenosis, there is still room for further improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with high FFR. In the FAME II study, 14.6% of the registry arm (FFR \> 0.80 and deferral of PCI) experienced persistent angina, and 9.0% of these patients had clinical events during a 2-year follow-up period.

Therefore, microvascular assessment using coronary flow reserve (CFR) and the index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR) can provide additional diagnostic and prognostic insights for IHD patients, especially in those with high FFR.

Recently, Lee et al. (JACC 2016) investigated clinical outcomes among patients with high-FFR and deferred revascularization, according to physiologic classification using CFR and IMR. Lee et al. firstly presented that 7.0% of patients with high FFR had high IMR and low CFR and were regarded as having overt microvascular disease. Although the proportion of patients with high FFR who had overt microvascular disease was small, Group D had the poorest clinical outcomes during follow-up. The presence of overt microvascular disease was an independent prognostic factor in patients with high FFR. In addition, the presence of overt microvascular disease had additive prognostic value aside from clinical risk factors, with significantly improved discriminant function of the prediction model. These results suggest that the invasive physiologic assessment for microvascular disease combined with CFR and IMR can help identify patients at high risk for future cardiovascular events among those with high FFR.

Previous studies have shown that the presence of microvascular disease is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events such as cardiac death, MI, or revascularization in patients without flow-limiting epicardial stenosis. Several mechanisms have been proposed for the association of microvascular disease and poor clinical outcomes. In addition to myocardial ischemia, microvascular disease is reported to be associated with endothelial dysfunction and inflammatory activity that precedes intimal thickening, lipid deposition in the macrovascular system, and coronary vasomotor dysfunction. In a study by Dhawan et al., coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease was associated with higher serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and a higher frequency of thin-cap fibroatheroma.

In the Lee et al.'s study, the higher clinical event rates in patients with overt microvascular disease resulted from cardiac death and revascularization rates higher than those of the other groups. These results imply that the presence of overt microvascular disease can induce accentuated atherosclerotic progression and subsequent clinical events including cardiac death and ischemia-driven repeat revascularization.

Therefore, the IMaging and Physiologic Predictors of Atherosclerotic Progression in Deferred Lesions with Contemporary Medical Treatment based on Fractional Flow Reserve-guided Strategy (IMPACT-FFR registry) was designed to compare the risk of atherosclerotic plaque progression and subsequent clinical events between deferred lesions with or without over microvascular disease, defined as physiological classification and also to explore independent predictors of atherosclerotic lesion progression in deferred lesions based on fractional flow reserve-guided strategy and treated by contemporary medical treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subject must be ≥ 18 years
* Patients suspected with ischemic heart disease
* Patients with intermediate degree of stenosis (30-70% stenosis by visual estimation) with fractional flow reserve of \>0.80 in major epicardial coronary artery amenable to stent implantation or vessel size≥2.5 mm
* Patients whose coronary stenosis were evaluated by invasive imaging techniques (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography) and physiologic assessment (coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance, and fractional flow reserve)
* Subject is able to verbally confirm understandings of risks, benefits and treatment alternatives of receiving invasive physiologic or imaging evaluation and he/she or his/her legally authorized representative provides written informed consent to any study related procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

* End-staged renal disease on peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis (estimated GFR \< 15mL/min)
* Acute hepatic injury
* Cardiogenic shock (systolic blood pressure \< 90mmHg or requiring inotropics to maintain blood pressure \> 90mmHg)
* The patient has a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to any of the following medications: statin, ezetimibe, heparin, aspirin, clopidogrel, prasugrel, ticagrelor
* Non-cardiac co-morbid conditions are present with life expectancy \<2 year (per site investigator's medical judgment)
* Unable to perform invasive imaging study (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography) or physiologic assessment (coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance, and fractional flow reserve)

Primary outcomes:
measure: patient-oriented composite outcome
timeFrame: 24 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: patient-oriented composite outcome
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: patient-oriented composite outcome
timeFrame: 60 months
measure: All-cause death
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: cardiac death
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Target-vessel nonfatal MI
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Non-target vessel nonfatal MI
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: All-cause nonfatal MI
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Seattle Angina Questionnaires
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Change in normalized total atheroma volume
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in total atheroma volume index
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in fibrous cap thickness by OCT
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in Plaque burden at minimum lumen area site
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in Fractional flow reserve
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in coronary flow reserve
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Change in index of microcirculatory resistance
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Daegu
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
city: Goyang-si
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
city: Seoul
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Samsung Medical Center
city: Seoul
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Seoul National University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Samsung Medical Center
name: Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Seoul National University Hospital
name: Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Samsung Medical Center
name: Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Samsung Medical Center
name: Joo Myung Lee, MD, MPH, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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