A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Multicentre multi-device hybrid imaging study of coronary artery disease: results from the EValuation of INtegrated Cardiac Imaging for the Detection and Characterization of Ischaemic Heart Disease (EVINCI) hybrid imaging population
Authors: Liga R, Vontobel J, Rovai D, Marinelli M, Caselli C, Pietila M, Teresinska A, Aguadé-Bruix S, Pizzi MN, Todiere G, Gimelli A, Chiappino D, Marraccini P, Schroeder S, Drosch T, Poddighe R, Casolo G, Anagnostopoulos C, Pugliese F, Rouzet F, Le Guludec D, Cappelli F, Valente S, Gensini GF, Zawaideh C, Capitanio S, Sambuceti G, Marsico F, Filardi PP, Fernández-Golfín C, Rincón LM, Graner FP, de Graaf MA, Stehli J, Reyes E, Nkomo S, Mäki M, Lorenzoni V, Turchetti G, Carpeggiani C, Puzzuoli S, Mangione M, Marcheschi P, Giannessi D, Nekolla S, Lombardi M, Sicari R, Scholte AJ, Zamorano JL, Underwood SR, Knuuti J, Kaufmann PA, Neglia D, Gaemperli O; EVINCI Study Investigators.
Publication year: 2016
Journal: EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
Journal acronym: Eur Hear J Cardiovasc Imaging
Article number: 9
Volume: 17
Issue: 9
First page : 951
Last page: 960
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 2047-2404
eISSN: 2047-2412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jew038
Aims:
Hybrid imaging provides a non-invasive assessment of coronary anatomy and myocardial perfusion. We sought to evaluate the added clinical value of hybrid imaging in a multi-centre multi-vendor setting.
Methods and results:
Fourteen centres enrolled 252 patients with stable angina and intermediate (20-90%) pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) who underwent myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS), CT coronary angiography (CTCA), and quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) with fractional flow reserve (FFR). Hybrid MPS/CTCA images were obtained by 3D image fusion. Blinded core-lab analyses were performed for CTCA, MPS, QCA and hybrid datasets. Hemodynamically significant CAD was ruled-in non-invasively in the presence of a matched finding (myocardial perfusion defect co-localized with stenosed coronary artery) and ruled-out with normal findings (both CTCA and MPS normal). Overall prevalence of significant CAD on QCA (> 70% stenosis or 30-70% with FFR <= 0.80) was 37%. Of 1004 pathological myocardial segments on MPS, 246 (25%) were reclassified from their standard coronary distribution to another territory by hybrid imaging. In this respect, in 45/252 (18%) patients, hybrid imaging reassigned an entire perfusion defect to another coronary territory, changing the final diagnosis in 42% of the cases. Hybrid imaging allowed non-invasive CAD rule-out in 41%, and rule-in in 24% of patients, with a negative and positive predictive value of 88% and 87%, respectively.
Conclusion:
In patients at intermediate risk of CAD, hybrid imaging allows non-invasive co-localization of myocardial perfusion defects and subtending coronary arteries, impacting clinical decision-making in almost one every five subjects.
