Clinical Outcomes of CT-FFR Versus QFR-guided Strategy for Decision-Making in Patients With Stable Chest Pain

Other illness

• Patients with acute coronary syndrome requiring urgent revascularization.
• Patients with unstable angina, including those with first-onset chest pain within 48 hours, CCS III or higher first-onset angina, those whose angina has worsened to CCS III or IV within a short period of time, or those with rest angina lasting more than 20 minutes.
• Patients with iodine contrast agent allergy.
• Patients with a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
• Target lesions related to acute myocardial infarction.
• Target lesions involving left main stem disease.
• Target lesions involving myocardial bridging.

Lab values

• Patients with severe congestive heart failure (NYHA III-IV or LVEF \<30%) or acute pulmonary edema.
• Patients with severe renal insufficiency (creatinine \>150μmol/L or estimated - -glomerular filtration rate calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula \<45ml/kg/1.73 m2).

Other

• General exclusion criteria:
• Pregnant or lactating women.
• Patients with other comorbidities and an expected survival time of less than 1 year.
• Patients who, for any other reason, are considered by the investigators to be unsuitable for inclusion in the study or unable to complete the study and follow-up.
  • Coronary CTA and coronary angiography exclusion criteria:
• Patients with a body mass index \>35 when undergoing coronary CT testing, resulting in poor CT image quality due to motion artifacts, severe calcification, or inadequate iodine contrast agent filling.
• Target lesions involving in-stent restenosis.
• Low-quality angiography due to poor visualization of vascular boundaries or poor iodine contrast agent filling.
• Excessive overlap of the stenotic segment or severe tortuosity of the target vessel, making QFR calculation impossible.
  • Regen

• Age ≥18 years
• with stable chest pain who underwent CCTA and have at least 1 lesion with a percent diameter stenosis (DS%) between 50% and 90% in a coronary artery with a ≥2.5 mm reference vessel diameter by visual assessment.These patients plan to undergo further non-invasive or invasive diagnosis and treatment.
• Able to undergo invasive coronary angiography (ICA)
• Capable of complying with the study procedures and fully understand the informed consent form approved by the ethics committee, and provide voluntary consent.