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Abstract
Background: The recommended dosage of intracoronary adenosine in fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment is controversial. High-dose adenosine may overcome the biological variability of adenosine response in hyperemia.
Objectives: We aimed to test the efficacy and safety of a high-dose escalation protocol at our institute.
Methods: Using the adenosine dose escalation protocol, the percentages of FFR ≤ 0.75 and 0.80 after high-dose escalation were compared with those at conventional doses. The chi-squared test was used to evaluate the accuracy of FFR values with the tested doses by comparing them with the results of a non-invasive pretest.
Results: A total of 87 patients (130 vessels) were included, and protocol adherence was 93.1%. High-dose intracoronary adenosine was injected in 78.5% of the vessels. The dose escalation strategy was well-tolerated without serious complications. The positive rate increased significantly after conducting the protocol compared to that with a conventional dose (28.2% vs. 23.6% with an FFR threshold of 0.75, and 48.7% vs. 42.5% with a threshold of 0.80, both p < 0.05). In the validation cohort, only FFR ≤ 0.75 was associated with the binary result of the non-invasive pretest (p < 0.01 vs. p = 0.37). The high-dose adenosine escalation strategy did not increase the accuracy of FFR (77.8% vs. 75.6% in conventional dose and high-dose adenosine, respectively).
Conclusions: The use of a high-dose escalation strategy increased the positive rate in FFR assessments.
期刊介绍:
Acta Cardiologica Sinica welcomes all the papers in the fields related to cardiovascular medicine including basic research, vascular biology, clinical pharmacology, clinical trial, critical care medicine, coronary artery disease, interventional cardiology, arrythmia and electrophysiology, atherosclerosis, hypertension, cardiomyopathy and heart failure, valvular and structure cardiac disease, pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and so on. We received papers from more than 20 countries and areas of the world. Currently, 40% of the papers were submitted to Acta Cardiologica Sinica from Taiwan, 20% from China, and 20% from the other countries and areas in the world. The acceptance rate for publication was around 50% in general.