Diastolic Hyperemia Free Index for Assessment of Moderate Coronary Stenoses (DFRiFR)

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: physiological assessment with Volcano Verrata pressure wire (iFR)

Detailed 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 Preliminary unpublished data analyzing physiologic data in benchtop modeling from the VERIFY and CONTRAST studies suggest a very high correlation between iFR and diastolic Pd/Pa.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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 88

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Washington University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 90 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

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

Description

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 but only 1 lesion will be evaluated per patient in this study

Exclusion Criteria:

• STEMI- Angiographic severity of 40-70% that operator feels needs physiologic assessment in setting of STEMI or 48hours within STEMI
• Atrial fibrillation
• Inability to provide informed consent- No surrogate or healthcare proxy will be allowed to consent for this study
• Severe tortuosity- Vessel tortuosity that the operator feels would be difficult to pass 2 pressure wires down or where pseudo lesions may be formed.
• Saphenous Vein Graft Lesion

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Case-Control
• Time Perspectives: Retrospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Correlation of iFR and DFR	. DFR will be correlated, in VIVO, with the gold standard, diastolic coronary blood flow measurement, the instantaneous wave free ratio (iFR). Both DFR and iFR will be correlated simultaneously during the index procedure in patients with moderate coronary stenoses whom hemodynamic assessment was clinically indicated.	The correlation between values will be the primary endpoint measured and occurs only during the index procedure.
Agreement for treatment with iFR	. how many patients would be treated differently using iFR vs. DFR	after all subjects are enrolled the RedCap data will be evaluated

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
• Collaborators: Boston Scientific Corporation
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Marc Sintek, MD, Washington University School of Medicine

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 22, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 29, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 12, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 15, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 9, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Physiologic assessment
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Diseases; Arteriosclerosis; Arterial Occlusive Diseases; Coronary Disease; Myocardial Ischemia; Coronary Artery Disease; Coronary Stenosis; Hyperemia
• Other Study ID Numbers: 201810120

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No