Registry of Comprehensive Imaging and Physiological Evaluation of Deferred Lesions Based on FFR (IMPACT-FFR)

IMaging and Physiologic Predictors of Atherosclerotic Progression in Deferred Lesions With Contemporary Medical Treatment Based on Fractional Flow Reserve-guided Strategy

1. To compare the risk of atherosclerotic lesion progression and subsequent patient-oriented composite outcomes (all-cause mortality, any MI, or any Ischemia-driven repeat revascularization) between deferred lesions with or without over microvascular disease, defined as physiological classification
2. To explore independent predictors of atherosclerotic lesion progression in deferred lesions based on fractional flow reserve-guided strategy and treated by contemporary medical treatment

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Ischemic Heart Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Comprehensive physiologic evaluation; Device: Intravascular imaging devices

Detailed Description

The coronary artery system has 3 components with different functions: conductive epicardial coronary arteries, arterioles, and capillaries. When any one of these systems fails, myocardial ischemia can occur. Therefore, the presence of epicardial coronary artery stenosis is not necessarily a prerequisite for ischemic heart disease (IHD). Although it has not been established that microvascular disease is independent of macrovascular disease, clinical studies have consistently shown that the presence of microvascular disease is an independent predictor of poor clinical outcomes, especially in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI).

The pressure-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) index has become a standard invasive method to evaluate the functional significance of epicardial coronary artery stenosis, and clinical outcomes of FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have proven to be better than those of angiography-guided PCI or medical treatment. Although FFR-guided PCI has been reported to improve patient outcomes and FFR is now regarded as the gold-standard invasive method to assess the functional significance of coronary artery stenosis, there is still room for further improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with high FFR. In the FAME II study, 14.6% of the registry arm (FFR > 0.80 and deferral of PCI) experienced persistent angina, and 9.0% of these patients had clinical events during a 2-year follow-up period.

Therefore, microvascular assessment using coronary flow reserve (CFR) and the index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR) can provide additional diagnostic and prognostic insights for IHD patients, especially in those with high FFR.

Recently, Lee et al. (JACC 2016) investigated clinical outcomes among patients with high-FFR and deferred revascularization, according to physiologic classification using CFR and IMR. Lee et al. firstly presented that 7.0% of patients with high FFR had high IMR and low CFR and were regarded as having overt microvascular disease. Although the proportion of patients with high FFR who had overt microvascular disease was small, Group D had the poorest clinical outcomes during follow-up. The presence of overt microvascular disease was an independent prognostic factor in patients with high FFR. In addition, the presence of overt microvascular disease had additive prognostic value aside from clinical risk factors, with significantly improved discriminant function of the prediction model. These results suggest that the invasive physiologic assessment for microvascular disease combined with CFR and IMR can help identify patients at high risk for future cardiovascular events among those with high FFR.

Previous studies have shown that the presence of microvascular disease is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events such as cardiac death, MI, or revascularization in patients without flow-limiting epicardial stenosis. Several mechanisms have been proposed for the association of microvascular disease and poor clinical outcomes. In addition to myocardial ischemia, microvascular disease is reported to be associated with endothelial dysfunction and inflammatory activity that precedes intimal thickening, lipid deposition in the macrovascular system, and coronary vasomotor dysfunction. In a study by Dhawan et al., coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease was associated with higher serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and a higher frequency of thin-cap fibroatheroma.

In the Lee et al.'s study, the higher clinical event rates in patients with overt microvascular disease resulted from cardiac death and revascularization rates higher than those of the other groups. These results imply that the presence of overt microvascular disease can induce accentuated atherosclerotic progression and subsequent clinical events including cardiac death and ischemia-driven repeat revascularization.

Therefore, the IMaging and Physiologic Predictors of Atherosclerotic Progression in Deferred Lesions with Contemporary Medical Treatment based on Fractional Flow Reserve-guided Strategy (IMPACT-FFR registry) was designed to compare the risk of atherosclerotic plaque progression and subsequent clinical events between deferred lesions with or without over microvascular disease, defined as physiological classification and also to explore independent predictors of atherosclerotic lesion progression in deferred lesions based on fractional flow reserve-guided strategy and treated by contemporary medical treatment.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 1400

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Korea, Republic of
  • Daegu, Korea, Republic of
    • Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center
  • Goyang-si, Korea, Republic of
    • Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
  • Seoul, Korea, Republic of
    • Seoul National University Hospital
  • Seoul, Korea, Republic of
    • Samsung Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients with intermediate degree of stenosis (30-70% stenosis by visual estimation) with fractional flow reserve of >0.80 in major epicardial coronary artery amenable to stent implantation or vessel size ≥2.5 mm.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subject must be ≥ 18 years
• Patients suspected with ischemic heart disease
• Patients with intermediate degree of stenosis (30-70% stenosis by visual estimation) with fractional flow reserve of >0.80 in major epicardial coronary artery amenable to stent implantation or vessel size≥2.5 mm
• Patients whose coronary stenosis were evaluated by invasive imaging techniques (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography) and physiologic assessment (coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance, and fractional flow reserve)
• Subject is able to verbally confirm understandings of risks, benefits and treatment alternatives of receiving invasive physiologic or imaging evaluation and he/she or his/her legally authorized representative provides written informed consent to any study related procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• End-staged renal disease on peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis (estimated GFR < 15mL/min)
• Acute hepatic injury
• Cardiogenic shock (systolic blood pressure < 90mmHg or requiring inotropics to maintain blood pressure > 90mmHg)
• The patient has a known hypersensitivity or contraindication to any of the following medications: statin, ezetimibe, heparin, aspirin, clopidogrel, prasugrel, ticagrelor
• Non-cardiac co-morbid conditions are present with life expectancy <2 year (per site investigator's medical judgment)
• Unable to perform invasive imaging study (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography) or physiologic assessment (coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance, and fractional flow reserve)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Overt microvascular disease; Fractional flow reserve>0.80, coronary flow reserve<2 & Index of microvascular resistance>25U	Device: Comprehensive physiologic evaluation; Comprehensive physiologic evaluation using pressure-temperature sensor wire to measure fractional flow reserve, coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance; Other Names: Comprehensive physiologic evaluation using pressure-temperature sensor wire; Device: Intravascular imaging devices; Intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography; Other Names: Intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography
No Overt microvascular disease; Fractional flow reserve>0.80, coronary flow reserve>2 & Index of microvascular resistance<25U	Device: Comprehensive physiologic evaluation; Comprehensive physiologic evaluation using pressure-temperature sensor wire to measure fractional flow reserve, coronary flow reserve, index of microcirculatory resistance; Other Names: Comprehensive physiologic evaluation using pressure-temperature sensor wire; Device: Intravascular imaging devices; Intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography; Other Names: Intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
patient-oriented composite outcome	a composite of all-cause death, MI, any repeat revascularization	24 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
patient-oriented composite outcome	a composite of all-cause death, MI, any repeat revascularization	12 months
patient-oriented composite outcome	a composite of all-cause death, MI, any repeat revascularization	60 months
All-cause death	All-cause death	24 months
cardiac death	cardiac death	24 months
Target-vessel nonfatal MI	Target-vessel nonfatal MI	24 months
Non-target vessel nonfatal MI	Non-target vessel nonfatal MI	24 months
All-cause nonfatal MI	All-cause nonfatal MI	24 months
Seattle Angina Questionnaires	Angina severity measured with Seattle Angina Questionnaires	24 months
Change in normalized total atheroma volume	TAVnormalized = [Σ (EEM CSA - lumen CSA) / no. of images in pullback images in cohort] X median no. of images in cohort	12 months
Change in total atheroma volume index	Indexed total atheroma volume (TAVi): Σ(EEM CSA -lumen CSA)/plaque length	12 months
Change in fibrous cap thickness by OCT	Change in fibrous cap thickness by OCT at 12-month	12 months
Change in Plaque burden at minimum lumen area site	Change in Plaque burden at minimum lumen area site at 12-month Plaque burden = (EEM-MLA)/EEM x 100	12 months
Change in Fractional flow reserve	Change in Fractional flow reserve at 12-month	12 months
Change in coronary flow reserve	Change in coronary flow reserve at 12-month	12 months
Change in index of microcirculatory resistance	Change in index of microcirculatory resistance at 12-month	12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center
• Collaborators: Seoul National University Hospital; Ulsan University Hospital; Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center; Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD, Samsung Medical Center; Principal Investigator: Joo Myung Lee, MD, MPH, PhD, Samsung Medical Center; Study Chair: Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, PhD, Samsung Medical Center; Study Chair: Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD, Seoul National University Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 20, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 22, 2017
• First Posted (Estimated): January 25, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 15, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 12, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Ischemic Heart Disease; Fractional flow reserve; Stable angina; Intravascular Imaging; Coronary Flow Reserve; Index of Microcirculatory Resistance
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Arteriosclerosis; Arterial Occlusive Diseases; Coronary Disease; Heart Diseases; Coronary Artery Disease; Myocardial Ischemia
• Other Study ID Numbers: IMPACT16453143

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: After publication of first manuscript and trial results, the de-identified data will be shared by permission of principle investigator, when asked