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 3

Baseline angiographic characteristics.

Included studiesSingle vessel (%)Multi-vessel (%)LAD (%)LCX (%)RCA (%)

Instantaneous flow ratio (iFR)
 Park et al. [16]--173 (73)--
[17] (46.2)(53.8)1003 (63)271 (17)319 (20)
 ADVISE in-practice [18]141 (36)247 (63)259 (66)39 (10)55 (14)
 ADVISE II [19]--380 (54.5)179 (25.7)138 (19.9)
 Fede et al. [51]--52 (58)20 (23)17 (19)
 Härle et al. [52]75 (69.4)33 (30.6)66 (43.7)20 (13.2)42 (27.8)
 Indolfi et al. [26]-18 (15)---
 VERIFY 2 [27]--148 (57.6)37 (14.4)45 (17.5)
 Kanaji et al. [22]89 (74.2)31 (25.8)77 (64.2)16 (13.3)27 (22.5)
 IDEAL [20]228 (78)63 (22)277 (49)172 (30)118 (21)
 Ding et al. [53]--146 (63.8)25 (10.9)45 (19.6)
 3V FFR-FRIENDS [21]--343 (35.2)335 (34.4)297 (30.5)
 Scarsini et al. [23]-----
 Shiode et al. [24]--90 (73)4 (3)29 (24)
 Emori et al. [15]--63 (63)23 (23)14 (14)
 Nobre et al. [54]-30 (21.7)---
 Panoulas et al. [28]--53 (85.5)2 (3.2)7 (11.3)
 Pisters et al. [55]--218 (43)88 (17)108 (21)
 Spagnoli et al. [25]20 (50)20 (50)34 (85)4 (10)2 (5)
Quantitative flow ratio (QFR)
 FAVOR Pilot [6]--46 (54.8)12 (14.3)19 (22.6)
 FAVOR II CHINA [7]--185 (55.7)49 (14.8)87 (26.2)
 Yazaki et al. [29]--96 (63.6)25 (16.6)26 (17.2)
 Emori et al. [15]--63 (63)23 (23)14 (14)
 Emori et al. [30]--97 (64.7)17 (11.3)36 (24.0)
 Mejia-Renteria et al. [32]--177 (59.0)37 (12.3)49 (16.3)
 Spitaleri et al. [31]-45 (100)---
 FAVOR II Europe-Japan [33]--160 (50)50 (16)68 (22)
 WIFI II [34]-81 (32)129 (51)29 (11)46 (18)

LAD, left anterior descending artery; LCX, left circumflex artery; RCA, right coronary artery.
total amount of patients in the RESOLVE study is non-available.