Long-term Prognostic Value of Murray Law-based Quantitative Flow Ratio in Jailed Left Circumflex Coronary Artery After Left Main Crossover Stenting

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2023 Mar 17

PMID 36927741

Authors

Lieyou Li

Zhihai Feng

Lin Zhang

Huang Chen

Hong Zheng

Huizhong Lin

Qiong Jiang

Yunlin Lin

Lianglong Chen

Lin Fan

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Abstract

We aimed to evaluate the impact of new Murray law-based QFR of jailed left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) on long-term clinical outcomes after left main coronary artery (LM) simple crossover stenting. 164 patients who underwent LM-to-left anterior descending coronary artery simple crossover stenting and had appropriate angiographic view of LCx for QFR computation were enrolled. The primary clinical outcome was the 5-year target lesion failure (TLF), defined as a composite of cardiac death, a target vessel myocardial infarction or target lesion repeat revascularization. The mean QFR of the LCx after LM stent implantation was 0.88 ± 0.09, and 29 patients (17.7%) had a low QFR (< 0.80), which was significantly associated with a higher 5-year rate of TLF when compared with the high QFR group (27.6% vs. 6.7%; HR: 4.235; 95% CI 1.21-14.95; p = 0.0015). The 5-year LCx ostium-related TLR rate in the low QFR group was also higher (17.2% vs. 3.0% in the high QFR group; HR: 6.07, 95% CI 1.63-22.59, p = 0.002). In a multivariate Cox regression analysis, a low QFR in the LCx after LM stenting was an independent predictor of the 5-year TLF rate (HR: 3.21, 95% CI 1.21-8.53; p = 0.019). ROC analysis showed that QFR a negative predictive value (NPV) of 89.6% ([AUC] 0.73, 95% CI 0.58-0.88, p < 0.05), the cutoff point is 0.85. The patients with a low QFR (< 0.80) in jailed LCX after LM simple crossover stenting had worse 5-year outcomes than those with a high QFR. Conversely, a QFR ≥ 0.85 of jailed LCx could serve as a good predictor of low risk of adverse outcome in LCx ostium. The QFR computation of the jailed LCx may be helpful to determine whether an additional procedure is required for the jailed side branch.

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