Diastolic Hyperemia Free Index for Assessment of Moderate Coronary Stenoses

Last updated: January 9, 2025
Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

N/A

Condition

Chest Pain

Heart Disease

Vascular Diseases

Treatment

physiological assessment with Volcano Verrata pressure wire (iFR)

Clinical Study ID

NCT04019535
201810120
  • Ages 18-90
  • All Genders

Study Summary

A total of 106 subjects will be enrolled at up to 3 sites. Initial enrollment will occur at Washington University only. After 15 subjects have been enrolled at the primary site and no serious adverse events or protocol events have occurred the additional sites will be trained and added to enrollment.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Moderate Coronary lesion deemed to need iFR assessment - Angiographic severity of 40-70% that operator feels needs physiologic assessment

  • Age 18-90 year old

  • Single worst lesion per patient- Patients may have more than one lesion assessed butonly 1 lesion will be evaluated per patient in this study

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • STEMI- Angiographic severity of 40-70% that operator feels needs physiologicassessment in setting of STEMI or 48hours within STEMI

  • Atrial fibrillation

  • Inability to provide informed consent- No surrogate or healthcare proxy will beallowed to consent for this study

  • Severe tortuosity- Vessel tortuosity that the operator feels would be difficult topass 2 pressure wires down or where pseudo lesions may be formed.

  • Saphenous Vein Graft Lesion

Study Design

Total Participants: 88
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: physiological assessment with Volcano Verrata pressure wire (iFR)
Phase:
Study Start date:
August 22, 2019
Estimated Completion Date:
December 31, 2023

Study Description

With the release of DEFINE-FLAIR and iFR SWEDEHEART, coronary physiology and namely iFR, have robust clinical data supporting its routine use in the cardiac catheterization lab. Unfortunately, iFR is a proprietary algorithm owned by Phillips Volcano Corporation (San diego, California, USA) limiting the use of iFR to those centers with Volcano hardware. Whole cardiac cycle Pd/Pa has been another resting measure that has been evaluated and generally performs poorly compared to FFR. Although iFR is measured during the wave free period in diastole, to date there has been no assessment of diastolic Pd/Pa measurements and its potential correlation with the severity of coronary stenoses. Most importantly, evaluating the pressure differential across the entirety of diastole must by definition contain the "iFR value" and therefore should correlate very close with the iFR assessment. Preliminary unpublished data analyzing physiologic data in benchtop modeling from the VERIFY and CONTRAST studies suggest a very high correlation between iFR and diastolic Pd/Pa. This relationship strengthens when measurements are limited to 65% of diastole, hereby named the Diastolic hyperemia-Free Ratio (DFR). These data strongly suggest that DFR could be used as surrogate for iFR when iFR is not available and thus leverage the large clinical outcomes data for iFR in a new measure that is widely available to all standard coronary pressure wires.

Although this preliminary data is strong, none of these measures where made prospectively in actual patients and the iFR was measured off simulated benchtop pressure waveform modeling. This study aims to perform a real-time correlation and agreement between iFR and DFR in patients with moderate coronary stenoses and indications for physiologic assessment.

Connect with a study center

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    Saint Louis, Missouri 63110
    United States

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