1-Year Impact on Medical Practice and Clinical Outcomes of FFRCT: The ADVANCE Registry.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

The 1-year data from the international ADVANCE (Assessing Diagnostic Value of Non-invasive FFRCT in Coronary Care) Registry of patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) was used to evaluate the relationship of fractional flow reserve derived from coronary CTA (FFRCT) with downstream care and clinical outcomes.

BACKGROUND:

Guidelines for management of chest pain using noninvasive imaging pathways are based on short- to intermediate-term outcomes.

METHODS:

Patients (N = 5,083) evaluated for clinically suspected coronary artery disease and in whom atherosclerosis was identified by coronary CTA were prospectively enrolled at 38 international sites from July 15, 2015, to October 20, 2017. Demographics, symptom status, coronary CTA and FFRCT findings and resultant site-based treatment plans, and clinical outcomes through 1 year were recorded and adjudicated by a blinded core laboratory. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE), death, myocardial infarction (MI), and acute coronary syndrome leading to urgent revascularization were captured.

RESULTS:

At 1 year, 449 patients did not have follow-up data. Revascularization occurred in 1,208 (38.40%) patients with an FFRCT ≤0.80 and in 89 (5.60%) with an FFRCT >0.80 (relative risk [RR]: 6.87; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 5.59 to 8.45; p < 0.001). MACE occurred in 55 patients, 43 events occurred in patients with an FFRCT ≤0.80 and 12 occurred in those with an FFRCT >0.80 (RR: 1.81; 95% CI: 0.96 to 3.43; p = 0.06). Time to first event (all-cause death or MI) occurred in 38 (1.20%) patients with an FFRCT ≤0.80 compared with 10 (0.60%) patients with an FFRCT >0.80 (RR: 1.92; 95% CI: 0.96 to 3.85; p = 0.06). Time to first event (cardiovascular death or MI) occurred cardiovascular death or MI occurred more in patients with an FFRCT ≤0.80 compared with patients with an FFRCT >0.80 (25 [0.80%] vs. 3 [0.20%]; RR: 4.22; 95% CI: 1.28 to 13.95; p = 0.01).

CONCLUSIONS:

The 1-year outcomes from the ADVANCE FFRCT Registry show low rates of events in all patients, with less revascularization and a trend toward lower MACE and significantly lower cardiovascular death or MI in patients with a negative FFRCT compared with patients with abnormal FFRCT values. (Assessing Diagnostic Value of Non-invasive FFRCT in Coronary Wave [ADVANCE]; NCT02499679).

• Authors: Manesh R Patel, Bjarne Linde Nørgaard, Timothy A Fairbairn, Koen Nieman, Takashi Akasaka, Daniel S Berman, Gilbert L Raff, Lynne M Hurwitz Koweek, Gianluca Pontone, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Niels Peter Rønnow Sand, Jesper M Jensen, Tetsuya Amano, Michael Poon, Kristian A Øvrehus, Jeroen Sonck, Mark G Rabbat, Sarah Mullen, Bernard De Bruyne, Campbell Rogers, Hitoshi Matsuo, Jeroen J Bax, Jonathon Leipsic
• Journal: JACC. Cardiovascular imaging (JACC Cardiovasc Imaging) Vol. 13 Issue 1 Pt 1 Pg. 97-105 (01 2020) ISSN: 1876-7591 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 31005540 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Topics

• Aged
• Cause of Death
• Computed Tomography Angiography
• Coronary Angiography
• Coronary Artery Disease (diagnostic imaging, mortality, physiopathology, therapy)
• Coronary Stenosis (diagnostic imaging, mortality, physiopathology, therapy)
• Coronary Vessels (diagnostic imaging, physiopathology)
• Disease Progression
• Female
• Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Myocardial Infarction (mortality, physiopathology, therapy)
• Myocardial Revascularization
• Predictive Value of Tests
• Prognosis
• Prospective Studies
• Registries
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factors
• Time Factors