Research Article

Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Performance of Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio versus Quantitative Flow Ratio for Detecting the Functional Significance of Coronary Stenosis

Table 1

Characteristics of included studies.

Included studiesYearNo. of lesionsTypeFFR cutoffiFR/QFR cutoff

Instantaneous flow ratio (iFR)
 Park et al. [16]2013239Multicenter, prospective0.800.90
 RESOLVE [17]20141593Multicenter, retrospective0.800.90
 ADVISE in-practice [18]2014392Multicenter, prospective0.800.90
 ADVISE II [19]2015690Multicenter, prospective0.800.89
 Fede et al. [51]201589Single-center, prospective0.800.89
 Härle et al. [52]2015151Single-center, prospective0.800.896
 Indolfi et al. [26]2015123Single-center, prospective0.800.92
 VERIFY 2 [27]2016257Single-center, prospective0.800.90
 Kanaji et al. [22]2016120Single-center, prospective0.800.89
 IDEAL [20]2017366Multicenter, prospective0.800.89
 Ding et al. [53]2017229Single-center, retrospective0.800.86
 3V FFR-FRIENDS [21]2017975Multicenter, prospective0.800.90
 Scarsini et al. [23]2017290Single-center, prospective0.800.89
 Shiode et al. [24]2017123Single-center, prospective0.800.89
 Emori et al. [15]2018100Single-center, retrospective0.800.89
 Nobre et al. [54]2018154Single-center, prospective0.800.91
 Panoulas et al. [28]201846Single-center, prospective0.800.90
 Pisters et al. [55]2018515Single-center, prospective0.800.89
 Spagnoli et al. [25]201840Single-center, prospective0.800.90
Quantitative flow ratio (QFR)
 FAVOR Pilot [6]201684Multicenter, prospective0.800.80
 FAVOR II CHINA [7]2017330Multicenter, prospective0.800.80
 Yazaki et al. [29]2017151Single-center, retrospective0.800.80
 Emori et al. [15]2018100Single-center, retrospective0.800.80
 Emori et al. [30]2018150Single-center, retrospective0.800.80
 Mejia-Renteria et al. [32]2018300Multicenter, prospective0.800.80
 Spitaleri et al. [31]201849Single-center, prospective0.800.80
 FAVOR II Europe-Japan [33]2018317Multicenter, prospective0.800.80
 WIFI II [34]2018240Multicenter, prospective0.800.80