TY - JOUR
T1 - Rationale and Design of the Pullback Pressure Gradient (PPG) Global Registry
AU - Munhoz, Daniel
AU - Collet, Carlos
AU - Mizukami, Takuya
AU - Yong, Andy
AU - Leone, Antonio Maria
AU - Eftekhari, Ashkan
AU - Ko, Brian
AU - da Costa, Bruno R
AU - Berry, Colin
AU - Collison, Damien
AU - Perera, Divaka
AU - Christiansen, Evald Høj
AU - Rivero, Fernando
AU - Zimmermann, Frederik M
AU - Ando, Hirohiko
AU - Matsuo, Hitoshi
AU - Nakayama, Masafumi
AU - Escaned, Javier
AU - Sonck, Jeroen
AU - Sakai, Koshiro
AU - Adjedj, Julien
AU - Desta, Liyew
AU - van Nunen, Lokien X
AU - West, Nick E J
AU - Fournier, Stephane
AU - Storozhenko, Tatyana
AU - Amano, Tetsuya
AU - Engstrøm, Thomas
AU - Johnson, Thomas
AU - Shinke, Toshiro
AU - Biscaglia, Simone
AU - Fearon, William F
AU - Ali, Ziad
AU - De Bruyne, Bernard
AU - Johnson, Nils P
N1 - Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Diffuse disease has been identified as one of the main reasons leading to low post-PCI fractional flow reserve (FFR) and residual angina after PCI. Coronary pressure pullbacks allow for the evaluation of hemodynamic coronary artery disease (CAD) patterns. The pullback pressure gradient (PPG) is a novel metric that quantifies the distribution and magnitude of pressure losses along the coronary artery in a focal-to-diffuse continuum.AIM: The primary objective is to determine the predictive capacity of the PPG for post-PCI FFR.METHODS: This prospective, large-scale, controlled, investigator-initiated, multicenter study is enrolling patients with at least 1 lesion in a major epicardial vessel with a distal FFR ≤ 0.80 intended to be treated by PCI. The study will include 982 subjects. A standardized physiological assessment will be performed pre-PCI, including the online calculation of PPG from FFR pullbacks performed manually. PPG quantifies the CAD pattern by combining several parameters from the FFR pullback curve. Post-PCI physiology will be recorded using a standardized protocol with FFR pullbacks. We hypothesize that PPG will predict optimal PCI results (post-PCI FFR ≥ 0.88) with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) ≥ 0.80. Secondary objectives include patient-reported and clinical outcomes in patients with focal vs. diffuse CAD defined by the PPG. Clinical follow-up will be collected for up to 36 months, and an independent clinical event committee will adjudicate events.RESULTS: Recruitment is ongoing and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2023.CONCLUSION: This international, large-scale, prospective study with pre-specified powered hypotheses will determine the ability of the preprocedural PPG index to predict optimal revascularization assessed by post-PCI FFR. In addition, it will evaluate the impact of PPG on treatment decisions and the predictive performance of PPG for angina relief and clinical outcomes.
AB - INTRODUCTION: Diffuse disease has been identified as one of the main reasons leading to low post-PCI fractional flow reserve (FFR) and residual angina after PCI. Coronary pressure pullbacks allow for the evaluation of hemodynamic coronary artery disease (CAD) patterns. The pullback pressure gradient (PPG) is a novel metric that quantifies the distribution and magnitude of pressure losses along the coronary artery in a focal-to-diffuse continuum.AIM: The primary objective is to determine the predictive capacity of the PPG for post-PCI FFR.METHODS: This prospective, large-scale, controlled, investigator-initiated, multicenter study is enrolling patients with at least 1 lesion in a major epicardial vessel with a distal FFR ≤ 0.80 intended to be treated by PCI. The study will include 982 subjects. A standardized physiological assessment will be performed pre-PCI, including the online calculation of PPG from FFR pullbacks performed manually. PPG quantifies the CAD pattern by combining several parameters from the FFR pullback curve. Post-PCI physiology will be recorded using a standardized protocol with FFR pullbacks. We hypothesize that PPG will predict optimal PCI results (post-PCI FFR ≥ 0.88) with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) ≥ 0.80. Secondary objectives include patient-reported and clinical outcomes in patients with focal vs. diffuse CAD defined by the PPG. Clinical follow-up will be collected for up to 36 months, and an independent clinical event committee will adjudicate events.RESULTS: Recruitment is ongoing and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2023.CONCLUSION: This international, large-scale, prospective study with pre-specified powered hypotheses will determine the ability of the preprocedural PPG index to predict optimal revascularization assessed by post-PCI FFR. In addition, it will evaluate the impact of PPG on treatment decisions and the predictive performance of PPG for angina relief and clinical outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ahj.2023.07.016
DO - 10.1016/j.ahj.2023.07.016
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37611857
SN - 0002-8703
VL - 265
SP - 170
EP - 179
JO - American Heart Journal
JF - American Heart Journal
ER -