TY - JOUR

T1 - Fractional flow reserve derived from coronary computed tomography angiography

T2 - diagnostic performance in hypertensive and diabetic patients

AU - Eftekhari, Ashkan

AU - Min, James

AU - Achenbach, Stephan

AU - Marwan, Mohamed

AU - Budoff, Matthew

AU - Leipsic, Jonathon

AU - Gaur, Sara

AU - Jensen, Jesper Møller

AU - Ko, Brian S

AU - Christiansen, Evald Høj

AU - Kaltoft, Anne

AU - Bøtker, Hans Erik

AU - Jensen, Jens Flensted

AU - Nørgaard, Bjarne Linde

N1 - Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2016. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

PY - 2017/12/1

Y1 - 2017/12/1

N2 - AIMS: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from coronary computed tomography (FFRCT) has high diagnostic performance in stable coronary artery disease (CAD). The diagnostic performance of FFRCT in patients with hypertension (HTN) and diabetes (DM), who are at risk of microvascular impairment, is not known.METHODS AND RESULTS: We analysed the diagnostic performance of FFRCT, in patients (vessels) with DM (n = 16), HTN (n = 186), DM + HTN (n = 58) vs. controls (n = 107) with or with suspected CAD. Patients (vessels) were further divided according to left ventricular mass index (LVMI) tertiles. Reference standard was invasively measured FFR ≤0.80. Per-patient diagnostic accuracy (95% CI) in control patients was 71.7% (61.6-81.8) vs. 79.3 (74.0-85.0) (P = 0.12), 75.0% (47.6-92.7) (P = 0.52), and 75.9% (62.8-86.1) (P = 0.39) in patients with HTN, DM, and HTM + DM, respectively. There was no difference in discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT between groups. On a per-vessel level, there was no significant difference in diagnostic performance or discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT between groups. There was a decline in both per-patient and -vessel diagnostic specificity of FFRCT in the upper LVMI tertile when compared with lower tertiles; however, discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT was unaltered across LVMI tertiles.CONCLUSION: The diagnostic performance of FFRCT is independent of the presence of HTN and DM. FFRCT is a robust method in a broad stable CAD population, including patients at high risk for microvascular disease.

AB - AIMS: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from coronary computed tomography (FFRCT) has high diagnostic performance in stable coronary artery disease (CAD). The diagnostic performance of FFRCT in patients with hypertension (HTN) and diabetes (DM), who are at risk of microvascular impairment, is not known.METHODS AND RESULTS: We analysed the diagnostic performance of FFRCT, in patients (vessels) with DM (n = 16), HTN (n = 186), DM + HTN (n = 58) vs. controls (n = 107) with or with suspected CAD. Patients (vessels) were further divided according to left ventricular mass index (LVMI) tertiles. Reference standard was invasively measured FFR ≤0.80. Per-patient diagnostic accuracy (95% CI) in control patients was 71.7% (61.6-81.8) vs. 79.3 (74.0-85.0) (P = 0.12), 75.0% (47.6-92.7) (P = 0.52), and 75.9% (62.8-86.1) (P = 0.39) in patients with HTN, DM, and HTM + DM, respectively. There was no difference in discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT between groups. On a per-vessel level, there was no significant difference in diagnostic performance or discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT between groups. There was a decline in both per-patient and -vessel diagnostic specificity of FFRCT in the upper LVMI tertile when compared with lower tertiles; however, discrimination of ischaemia by FFRCT was unaltered across LVMI tertiles.CONCLUSION: The diagnostic performance of FFRCT is independent of the presence of HTN and DM. FFRCT is a robust method in a broad stable CAD population, including patients at high risk for microvascular disease.

U2 - 10.1093/ehjci/jew209

DO - 10.1093/ehjci/jew209

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 28013282

VL - 18

SP - 1351

EP - 1360

JO - European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

JF - European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

SN - 1525-2167

IS - 12

ER -