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Application of Intracoronary Physiology Use of Pressure and Flow Measurements

Built from Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease

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18 sections · 167 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of this presentation

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Limits of Coronary Angiography

    • Revascularisation and its limits
    • The angiogram as a two-dimensional lumenogram
    • Eccentric stenosis seen in different radiographic projections
    • Angiographic artefacts that degrade interpretation

    4 slides

  3. 03

    Development of Coronary Physiology

    • Origins of the pressure-flow model
    • Quantitative angiography and early stent haemodynamics
    • Doppler wire and coronary flow reserve
    • Pressure wire, FFR and iFR
    • Trial development of iFR and angiography-derived indices
    • Origin and development of coronary physiology

    6 slides

  4. 04

    Determinants of Coronary Blood Flow

    • Layers of the epicardial coronary artery
    • Endothelial regulation of vascular tone
    • Autoregulation at the tissue level
    • Mechanisms of endothelial autoregulation
    • Factors that adversely affect coronary blood flow
    • Atherosclerosis and resistance to myocardial flow
    • Epicardial artery size and myocardial mass
    • Flow, pressure and resistance relationships
    • Distal coronary pressure as an unequivocal reference
    • Phasic coronary flow during the cardiac cycle
    • Multifactorial control of myocardial blood flow
    • Two-compartment model of the coronary circulation
    • Compensation and exhaustion of coronary flow reserve
    • Schematic of coronary blood flow pathways
    • Comparison of Fractional Flow Reserve ( Ffr ) and Coronary Flow Reserve ( Cfr )

    15 slides

  5. 05

    Physiological Indices of the Coronary Circulation

    • Which indices are in everyday use
    • Comparison of Coronary Physiological Indices
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab (continued)
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab: Measurement Principle
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab: Measurement Principle (continued)
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab: Clinical Application
    • Coronary Physiologic Measurements in the Catheterization Lab: Clinical Application (continued)
    • Definition of coronary flow reserve
    • Reproducibility and haemodynamic dependence of CFR
    • Normal values and confounders of CFR
    • Conceptual limitations of coronary flow reserve
    • Definition of fractional flow reserve
    • Validation basis of fractional flow reserve
    • Myocardial, coronary and collateral FFR
    • Simplification to the Pd/Pa ratio
    • Properties that make FFR lesion-specific
    • Experimental proof of haemodynamic independence
    • Interpreting the numerical value of FFR

    19 slides

  6. 06

    Technique of Intracoronary Sensor Wire Use

    • Sensor wires and guiding catheters
    • Zeroing and sensor position
    • Pressure output connector ports and power indicator
    • Console controls for equalising and zeroing distal and aortic pressure
    • Doppler flow velocity signal acquisition
    • Steps in fractional flow reserve measurement
    • Pressure pullback to localise disease
    • Step-by-step diastolic hyperaemia-free ratio and fractional flow reserve study

    8 slides

  7. 07

    Pharmacologic Hyperaemia

    • Requirement for maximal hyperaemia
    • Submaximal hyperaemia and its use
    • Adenosine pharmacology and dosing
    • Intravenous versus intracoronary adenosine
    • Regadenoson
    • Intracoronary sodium nitroprusside
    • Coronary Physiologic Indexes: Hyperaemic Agents Used for Coronary Physiology Assessment
    • Coronary Physiologic Indexes: Hyperaemic Agents Used for Coronary Physiology Assessment: Mechanism of Action
    • Coronary Physiologic Indexes: Hyperaemic Agents Used for Coronary Physiology Assessment: Dose
    • Coronary Physiologic Indexes: Hyperaemic Agents Used for Coronary Physiology Assessment: Side Effects

    10 slides

  8. 08

    Assessment of Microvascular Disease

    • Definition of the index of microcirculatory resistance
    • Clinical value of IMR
    • Measurement of IMR

    3 slides

  9. 09

    FFR, Ischaemia and PCI Outcomes

    • Ischaemic threshold of fractional flow reserve
    • The DEFER trial
    • The FAME trial
    • Deferred lesions within FAME
    • Outcomes in the FFR grey zone
    • The FAME 2 trial
    • Combined message of the FFR outcome trials

    7 slides

  10. 10

    Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

    • FFR-guided decisions in left main stenosis
    • Left main revascularisation outcomes with FFR guidance
    • Left main revascularisation outcomes with FFR guidance: Enrollment Criteria
    • Left main revascularisation outcomes with FFR guidance: Mace Definition
    • Left main revascularisation outcomes with FFR guidance: Main Findings
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio outcomes in left main disease
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio outcomes in left main disease: Mace Definition
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio outcomes in left main disease: Main Findings
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio compared with FFR in left main disease
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio compared with FFR in left main disease: Mace Definition
    • Instantaneous wave-free ratio compared with FFR in left main disease: Main Findings
    • Assessment of simple and distal left main lesions
    • Effect of downstream stenosis on left main FFR
    • Human validation of apparent versus true left main FFR
    • Serial left main and LAD lesions
    • When downstream disease genuinely invalidates left main FFR

    16 slides

  11. 11

    Serial Lesions and Diffuse Disease

    • Physiology of tandem or serial lesions
    • Practical approach to serial lesions
    • Diffuse coronary atherosclerotic disease
    • Focal versus diffuse pressure loss on pullback

    4 slides

  12. 12

    Non-hyperaemic Indices

    • Rationale for adenosine-free indices
    • The ADVISE study
    • Hybrid iFR strategy of Petraco
    • The RESOLVE core laboratory study
    • Comparison of iFR and FFR in stable coronary disease
    • Comparative assessment of iFR and FFR in stable coronary artery disease
    • Comparative assessment of iFR and FFR in stable coronary artery disease: Mace Definition
    • Comparative assessment of iFR and FFR in stable coronary artery disease: Main Findings

    8 slides

  13. 13

    Acute Coronary Syndromes

    • Microvascular dysfunction after acute injury
    • Timing of FFR after non-ST-elevation events
    • Non-culprit lesions in ST-elevation myocardial infarction
    • FFR of the culprit vessel after infarction
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials (continued)
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Enrollment Criteria
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Enrollment Criteria (continued)
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Mace Definition
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Mace Definition (continued)
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Main Findings
    • Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome trials: Main Findings (continued)

    12 slides

  14. 14

    Bypass Grafts and Graft Patency

    • FFR in coronary artery bypass graft lesions
    • Native vessel physiology and graft patency

    2 slides

  15. 15

    Quantitative Flow Ratio

    • Principle of quantitative flow ratio
    • FAVOR III China
    • FAVOR III Europe
    • Post-PCI QFR and vessel outcomes
    • QFR-DECISION-PCI pilot study
    • Claimed advantages of QFR over FFR and iFR
    • Assessment of quantitative flow ratio in patients undergoing PCI
    • Assessment of quantitative flow ratio in patients undergoing PCI: Enrollment
    • Assessment of quantitative flow ratio in patients undergoing PCI: Outcomes
    • Assessment of quantitative flow ratio in patients undergoing PCI: Findings

    10 slides

  16. 16

    Special Clinical Situations

    • Myocardial bridging
    • Dobutamine challenge in myocardial bridging
    • Coronary physiology in women
    • Coronary physiology in pregnancy
    • Vasospastic angina
    • Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
    • Comparison of dFR, iFR and RFR
    • Limits of agreement between resting indices

    8 slides

  17. 17

    Pitfalls and Complications

    • Thresholds and cycle phase of iFR and FFR
    • Pitfalls of iFR and FFR
    • Pitfalls of iFR and FFR (continued)
    • Complications of FFR compared with iFR

    4 slides

  18. 18

    Summary

    • Current place of invasive coronary physiology
    • Threshold values worth memorising
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    13 slides