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. 2021 Dec 24;8:744181. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.744181

Table 3B.

Vessel and lesion characteristics between concordant and discordant cases of RFR and FFR.

RFR > 0.89
FFR > 0.8
Both negative
RFR ≤ 0.89
FFR > 0.8
Discordance
RFR ≤ 0.89
FFR ≤ 0.8
Both positive
RFR > 0.89
FFR ≤ 0.8
Discordance
p value Concordance Discordance p value
No. of vessels 396 (55.7) 94 (13.2) 159 (22.3) 63 (8.8) 555 (78.0) 157 (22.0)
Target Vessel
Left anterior descending 174 (43.9) 75 (79.8) 131 (82.4) 44 (69.8) < 0.01 305 (55.0) 119 (75.8) < 0.01
Ramus intermedius 7 (1.8) 2 (2.1) 2 (1.3) 0 (0) 0.70 9 (1.6) 2 (1.3) 0.76
Right coronary artery 108 (27.3) 8 (8.5) 10 (6.3) 17 (27) < 0.01 118 (21.3) 25 (15.9) 0.14
Left circumflex artery 98 (24.7) 9 (9.6) 15 (9.4) 2 (3.2) < 0.01 113 (20.4) 11 (7) < 0.01
Number of diseased vessels total
1 94 (23.7) 25 (26.6) 28 (17.6) 11 (17.5) 0.23 122 (22) 36 (22.9) 0.80
2 159 (40.2) 33 (35.1) 51 (32.1) 29 (46) 0.16 210 (37.8) 62 (39.5) 0.71
3 120 (30.3) 34 (36.2) 78 (49.1) 23 (36.5) < 0.01 198 (35.7) 57 (36.3) 0.88
Lesion location
Proximal 191 (48.2) 39 (41.5) 58 (36.5) 20 (31.7) 0.02 249 (44.9) 59 (37.6) 0.11
Mid 147 (37.1) 47 (50.0) 74 (46.5) 32 (50.8) 0.03 221 (39.8) 78 (49.7) 0.03
Distal 58 (14.6) 8 (8.5) 27 (17) 11 (17.5) 0.27 85 (15.3) 19 (12.1) 0.31
Non-focal lesion 136 (34.3) 49 (52.1) 81 (50.9) 24 (38.1) < 0.01 217 (39.1) 73 (46.5) 0.10
QCA analysis
Diameter stenosis, % 49.45 ± 7.26 51.69 ± 7.43 59.07 ± 8.1 61.04 ± 6.96 < 0.01 52.2 ± 8.68 55.44 ± 8.56 < 0.01
Reference diameter, mm 3.12 ± 0.61 2.9 ± 0.61 2.76 ± 0.57 2.79 ± 0.56 < 0.01 3.02 ± 0.62 2.86 ± 0.59 0.01
Minimal lumen diameter, mm 1.58 ± 0.39 1.41 ± 0.39 1.13 ± 0.31 1.12 ± 0.32 < 0.01 1.46 ± 0.42 1.3 ± 0.39 < 0.01
Lesion length, mm 14.27 ± 8.53 14.61 ± 9.17 18.07 ± 10.96 19.46 ± 10.25 < 0.01 15.36 ± 9.44 16.56 ± 9.88 0.17
Pressure wire-derived index
FFR 0.89 (0.86–0.93) 0.84 (0.82–0.86) 0.75 (0.71–0.78) 0.78 (0.76–0.8) < 0.01 0.86 (0.79–0.91) 0.82 (0.79–0.85) < 0.01
RFR 0.95 (0.93–0.98) 0.88 (0.85–0.89) 0.85 (0.81–0.87) 0.92 (0.91–0.93) < 0.01 0.93 (0.88–0.97) 0.89 (0.87–0.91) < 0.01
dPR[WFP] 0.96 (0.93–0.98) 0.88 (0.86–0.89) 0.85 (0.81–0.87) 0.92 (0.91–0.94) < 0.01 0.94 (0.88–0.97) 0.89 (0.87–0.91) < 0.01
dPR[diastole] 0.96 (0.93–0.98) 0.88 (0.86–0.90) 0.86 (0.82–0.88) 0.92 (0.91–0.94) < 0.01 0.94 (0.89–0.98) 0.90 (0.88–0.92) < 0.01
Resting Pd/Pa 0.96 (0.95–0.99) 0.91 (0.9–0.92) 0.88 (0.85–0.9) 0.94 (0.92–0.95) < 0.01 0.95 (0.91–0.98) 0.92 (0.9–0.94) < 0.01

Data are presented as n (%), mean SD, or median (Q1–Q3); Abbreviations as in the text. Bold numbers represent statistically significant p values.