Retrospective Comparison of Long-Term Clinical Outcomes Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Medical Therapy in Stable Coronary Artery Disease With Gray Zone Fractional Flow Reserve ― COMFORTABLE Retrospective Study

Background: A fractional flow reserve (FFR) between 0.75 and 0.80 constitutes a “gray zone” for clinical decision-making in coronary artery disease. We compared long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using drug-eluting stents vs. medical therapy for coronary stenosis with gra...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circulation Journal 2018/11/24, Vol.82(12), pp.3044-3051
Hauptverfasser: Kubo, Takashi, Takahata, Masahiro, Terada, Kosei, Mori, Kazuya, Arita, Yu, Ino, Yasushi, Matsuo, Yoshiki, Kitabata, Hironori, Shiono, Yasutsugu, Shimamura, Kunihiro, Kameyama, Takeyoshi, Emori, Hiroki, Katayama, Yosuke, Tanimoto, Takashi, Akasaka, Takashi
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Zusammenfassung:Background: A fractional flow reserve (FFR) between 0.75 and 0.80 constitutes a “gray zone” for clinical decision-making in coronary artery disease. We compared long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using drug-eluting stents vs. medical therapy for coronary stenosis with gray zone FFR. Methods and Results: We retrospectively investigated the clinical outcomes of 263 patients with gray zone FFR: 78 patients in the PCI group and 185 patients in the medical therapy group. During a median follow-up of 3.7 years, the frequency of target vessel failure (TVF, defined as a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction [MI], or ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization [TVR]) was significantly lower in the PCI group compared with the medical therapy group (6% vs. 19%, hazard ratio [HR]:0.33, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.13–0.84, P=0.008). The frequency of a composite of cardiac death or MI was not different between the 2 groups (1% vs. 2%, HR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.07–5.49, P=0.645). The frequency of ischemia-driven TVR was significantly lower in the PCI group compared with the medical therapy group (5% vs. 18%, HR: 0.28, 95% CI: 0.10–0.79, P=0.005). Conclusions: In patients with gray zone FFR, compared with medical therapy, PCI decreased the frequency of TVF, which was mainly driven by a reduction in the frequency of angina or myocardial ischemia without any difference in the frequency of cardiac death or MI.
ISSN:1346-9843
1347-4820
1347-4820
DOI:10.1253/circj.CJ-18-0672