Abstract
The additive prognostic value of coronary flow reserve (CFR) over regional wall motion has been established, but there is more than a binary (normal-abnormal) response in CFR, which can be continuously titrated. We assessed the prognostic value of quartiles of CFR, evaluated by transthoracic Doppler of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). One thousand six hundred twenty patients (1,006 men, 64 +/- 11 years of age) underwent dipyridamole (up to 0.84 mg/kg over 6 minutes) stress echocardiography with CFR evaluation of LAD by Doppler and coronary angiography. Patients were followed up for a median of 19 months. Mean CFR in the entire population was 2.25 +/- 0.65. Stress echocardiogram was positive for ischemia in 480 patients (30%). Obstructive (>or=70% vessel stenosis) CAD at angiography was present in 650 patients (40%). During follow-up, there were 298 events (42 deaths, 73 ST-elevation myocardial infarctions, and 183 non-ST-elevation myocardial infarctions). Patients (n = 399) undergoing revascularization were censored. With the Kaplan-Meier method, the first quartile of CFR (<or=1.80) was associated with a worse (p <0.0001) event rate than other...Continue Reading
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