@article{QIAO2025, 
author = {Zheng QIAO and Zhang-Yu LIN and Qian-Qian LIU and Rui ZHANG and Chang-Dong GUAN and Sheng YUAN and Tong-Qiang ZOU and Xiao-Hui BIAN and Li-Hua XIE and Cheng-Gang ZHU and Hao-Yu WANG and Guo-Feng GAO and Ke-Fei DOU},
title = {Prognostic value of quantitative flow ratio measured immediately after percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion},
year = {2025},
journal = {Journal of Geriatric Cardiology},
volume = {22},
number = {4},
pages = {433-442},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/1671-5411.2025.04.001},
doi = {10.26599/1671-5411.2025.04.001},
abstract = {BACKGROUND The clinical impact of post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) quantitative flow ratio (QFR) in patients treated with PCI for chronic total occlusion (CTO) was still undetermined.METHODS All CTO vessels treated with successful anatomical PCI in patients from PANDA III trial were retrospectively measured for post-PCI QFR. The primary outcome was 2-year vessel-oriented composite endpoints (VOCEs, composite of target vessel-related cardiac death, target vessel-related myocardial infarction, and ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization). Receiver operator characteristic curve analysis was conducted to identify optimal cutoff value of post-PCI QFR for predicting the 2-year VOCEs, and all vessels were stratified by this optimal cutoff value. Cox proportional hazards models were employed to calculate the hazard ratio (HR) with 95% CI.RESULTS Among 428 CTO vessels treated with PCI, 353 vessels (82.5%) were analyzable for post-PCI QFR. 31 VOCEs (8.7%) occurred at 2 years. Mean value of post-PCI QFR was 0.92 ± 0.13. Receiver operator characteristic curve analysis shown the optimal cutoff value of post-PCI QFR for predicting 2-year VOCEs was 0.91. The incidence of 2-year VOCEs in the vessel with post-PCI QFR < 0.91 (n = 91) was significantly higher compared with the vessels with post-PCI QFR ≥ 0.91 (n = 262) (22.0% vs. 4.2%, HR = 4.98, 95% CI: 2.32–10.70).CONCLUSIONS Higher post-PCI QFR values were associated with improved prognosis in the PCI practice for coronary CTO. Achieving functionally optimal PCI results (post-PCI QFR value ≥ 0.91) tends to get better prognosis for patients with CTO lesions.}
}