3. Introduction
• How I use iFR used clinical practice today?
• What is limiting its use
• Clinical Trials
– FLAIR
– SWEDE HEART
– How they compare to FFR trials….
4. ADVISE study
Oct 2011
Sen et al J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Apr 10;59(15):1392-402. LBCT TCT 2011
• Using iFR and FFR together
ADVISE Registry
May 2012
Petraco et al. Eurointervention, August 2012. LBCT EuroPCR 2012
HYBRID strategy
Aug 2012
iFR and FFR can be
used together, sparing
patients from
adenosine
Petraco et al. Eurointervention, 2012. ESC 2012
Park et al, International J Cardiol
iFR in Clinical Practice Today
5. iFR in all intended to treat vessels
iFR <0.86*
Implantation of
SYNERGYTM stent(s)
iFR >0.93
No stent implantation
in lesion
Optimization by IVUS
guidance (modified MUSIC
Criteria)
Optimal medical therapy with a strict control of LDL (≤1.8 mmol)
Patient ‘Signed Off’ by
Heart Team for PCI
iFR 0.86-0.93
FFR
FFR≤0.80 FFR>0.80
MSCT with anatomic and functional Syntax Score (exploratory)
SYNTAX II
10. What we know about iFR?
• iFR and FFR have similar ability to detect
ischaemia
11. Vasodilators do not improve
physiological diagnostic accuracy
1. Van de Hoef et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2012;5(4):508-14
2. Sen et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;61(13):1409-20
5. Petraco et al. Circ. Int. 2014
6. de Waard et al. (ACC 2014)
3. Van de Hoef Euroint.. 2015 Dec;11(8):914-25
4. Sen et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013;62(6):566
0
20
40
60
80
100
HSR HSR SPECT PET CFR
Accuracy(%)orROC(%)
FFR
iFR
p=ns
p<0.01
p=ns p=ns
p<0.01
12. 0
20
40
60
80
100
FFR iFR iFRa
N=184
Koo BK et al., PCR 2015
p=ns for all
iFR and FFR have the same diagnostic power
to predict ischaemia against hyperaemic PET
13. • iFR and FFR have similar ability to detect
ischaemia
• iFR is not FFR
What we know about iFR?
14. Differences between
iFR and FFR
• 1 in 5 patients iFR and FFR will
disagree
• What does this mean
– Flow
– Hyperaemia
– Distal disease
– RA pressure…..
15. Coronary Live Case
Transmission
Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK
Physiological
assessment
of Cx
iFR Co-Registration simplifying serial
lesion assessment
16. • iFR and FFR have similar ability to detect
ischaemia
• iFR is not FFR
• Simple to perform
What we know about iFR?
17. iFR is simple, safe, reliable
and cost effective
• No adenosine1
• A few seconds to perform (5 beats)2
• Avoid serious complications (1%) of cases3
• Avoids unpleasant adenosine side effects
• Avoids off-label use of adenosine
1. Sen S et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Apr 10;59(15):1392-402
2. Petraco R et al. Am Heart J. 2014 Nov;168(5):739-48
3. Curzen N et al. RIPCORD Circ. Cv. Intervention 2014 (Apr)
18. • iFR and FFR have similar ability to detect
ischaemia
• iFR is not FFR
• Simple to perform
• iFR has NO clinical outcome data
What we know about iFR?
24. Functional Lesion Assessment of Intermediate stenosis to guide Revascularisation
The primary objective of DEFINE-FLAIR is to assess the safety
and efficacy of decision-making on coronary revascularisation
based on iFR measurements of stenosis severity, compared with
FFR.
Primary Objective
25. Functional Lesion Assessment of Intermediate stenosis to guide Revascularisation
• Costs associated to iFR or FFR guidance
• Quality of life (QOL) to iFR or FFR guidance
• Prediction of events from post-PCI iFR/FFR measures
• Reliability of iFR/FFR in non-culprit ACS
Primary endpoint
• Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) rate in the
iFR and FFR groups at 30 days, 1, 2, and 5 years.
Secondary endpoints
30. Summary
DEFINE-FLAIR and iFR Swede-Heart will be the
largest physiology studies to date.
• Physiology simpler and easier to perform
• More cost effective
• Safer
• Patient friendly
33. SO the winner?
• Our patients
• Explosion of interest in coronary physiology
• Field is open
• Many more centers, more indices
• New pressure wires
• Non-invasive techniques