Clinical trial NCT03383718: DSE vs. FFR in SCAD and BYSTANDER Lesions
Official title: Comparison of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients With Moderate Coronary Artery Disease: Stable and Non-culprit Lesions Investigation
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Ischemic Heart Disease
Keywords: Coronary Artery Disease
Fractional Flow Reserve
Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography
Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Bystander Coronary Artery Disease
Non-Culprit Lesions
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Lead sponsor: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center
First posted: 2017-12-26
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: In this study, the suitable patients have at least one moderate coronary artery stenosis identified by coronary angiography.

There will be patients with stable coronary artery disease and patients with acute myocardial infarction having at least one non-culprit vessel stenoses.

Brief summary: Enrollment:

* Patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) and moderate coronary artery stenoses (30-70 %)
* Patients with acute myocardial infarction and moderate stenosis of non-culprit arteries (NCL; BYSTANDER LESION)

Aims:

* To assess the diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) and invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement
* To assess the prognostic impact of reclassification by a mismatching negative test

Hypothesis:

* DSE and FFR have similar prognostic value in both clinical settings (SCAD and NCL)
* Considering the strong negative predictive value of both DSE and FFR, one negative test is sufficiently enough to defer revascularisation, even in the case of mismatch

Detailed description: Easy accessibility made fractional flow reserve (FFR) a widely accepted method to evaluate myocardial ischaemia in patients with moderate coronary artery stenosis, although the prognostic value for "hard" endpoints such as myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death is equivocal.

Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is a useful and safe non-invasive functional test for myocardial ichaemia evaluation. There are robust data confirming the prognostic value of DSE regarding the same "hard" endpoints.

In patients with SCAD there are clear recommendations in the recent guidelines both for DSE guided or FFR guided revascularization but the data about prognosis is limited, especially in the case of FFR guidance. The outcome is also equivocal if there is a difference between the invasive and non-invasive test result.

In patients with acute myocardial infarction, more than 50% of patients have multivessel disease. There are clear recommendations for the management of infarct related artery, however controversy still exists for the management of angiographically moderate NCLs.

In DSE vs. FFR prospective trial, the Investigators plan to perform both the DSE and FFR tests in the above mentioned clinical settings, to investigate the correlation between them. The causes of differences between them would be investigated as well as the prognostic impact of reclassification by a second test (either DSE or FFR).

If both tests are positive, revascularisation is planned to be performed (PCI Group). In cases of either double negative or mismatching tests, optimal medical therapy will be chosen (OMT Group) with clinical follow up of at least 2 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age\>18 years
* Moderate Coronary Stenosis (30-70 %)
* Stable coronary artery disease or patients with acute myocardial infarction and at least one moderate non-culprit vessel stenosis

Exclusion Criteria:

* Left Main Coronary artery stenosis
* Age\>80 years
* Known non-cardiovascular disease with poor prognosis
* Patients for whom coronary angiography or stress echocardiography is contraindicated per institutional standard of care (e.g. History of severe and/or anaphylactic contrast reaction)
* Inability to provide informed consent;
* Inability to cooperate with the investigation
* Pregnancy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Acute Myocardial Infarction
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
measure: Target Vessel Revascularisation
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
measure: Cardiovascular Death
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Angina
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
measure: Heart failure
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
measure: Non-Cardiac Death
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
measure: Non-Target Vessel Revascularisation
timeFrame: From baseline to at least 2 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital
name: Péter Andrássy, MD.PhD.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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