Translesional PRESSURE Measurements to Assess Clinical Relevance of a Mesenteric Artery Stenosis (PRESSURE-study)
NCT ID: NCT07059520
Last Updated: 2025-07-31
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RECRUITING
125 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2025-04-01
2028-01-01
Brief Summary
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Hence, imaging alone cannot be relied upon, making the diagnosis of CMI challenging. Treatment decisions for atherosclerotic CMI are currently based on history, stenosis severity on imaging, and signs of mesenteric ischemia during a functional test. Yet, sufficiency of the collateral circulation cannot be assessed, resulting in substantial failure to recover from symptoms after stentplacement (27-31% in single vessel disease), unnecessary complications, and avoidable healthcare expenses. A retrospective cohort study by van Dijk et al. reports that intra-arterial pressure measurements could predict clinical success of mesenteric artery revascularization with an 86% sensitivity and 83% specificity, indicating that mesenteric artery pressure measurements could be a highly desired and promising tool for the assessment of hemodynamic and clinical relevance of a mesenteric artery stenosis. Which is sensible, since pressure gradients will only occur when both a severe mesenteric artery stenosis and an insufficient collateral circulation are present. Another advantages of pressure measurements is the ability to simulate the postprandial physiology, using nitroglycerin, enabling measurements when mesenteric blood flow is maximal. Intra-arterial pressure measurements are currently the most promising tool to guide clinical decision making in patients with suspected CMI and could result in major improvements in quality of life by improving clinical success of mesenteric artery revascularization, decreasing complication risks and decreasing healthcare costs by facilitating allocation of health care resources to those patients actually benefitting from treatment.
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Detailed Description
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The Dutch Mesenteric Ischemia Study group (DMIS) consists of experts in the field of CMI and aims to improve both the quality of care and the quality of life of CMI patients by initiating and designing studies to provide patient-centered and evidence-based solutions to pending challenges in the field of CMI. In recent years the DMIS has been searching for a reliable tool to assess hemodynamic significance of a mesenteric artery stenosis, while accounting for the collateral circulation, in order to guide treatment decisions and avoid clinically unbeneficial revascularization procedures. In a retrospective study flow velocities were increased in the unaffected mesenteric artery when either the CA or SMA were stenosed. The increased blood flow in the unaffected vessel could indicate a well-functioning collateral network where blood flow is rerouted to prevent chronic mesenteric ischemia.
Another retrospective cohort study reports that intra-arterial pressure measurements, using a 4Fr catheter, could predict clinical success of mesenteric artery revascularization with an 86% sensitivity and 83% specificity. In this retrospective study, pressure gradients were obtained after administration of a vasodilator. With these pressure measurements, the Pd/Pa ratio and the fractional flow reserve (FFR) were measured. The Pd/Pa ratio is the pressure distal to the stenosis divided by pressure in the aorta and the FFR is the Pd/Pa ratio under hyperemic conditions, after administration of a vasodilator. Mesenteric artery pressure measurements could be a promising tool for the assessment of hemodynamic and clinical relevance of mesenteric artery stenosis, since pressure gradients will only occur in mesenteric arteries with a severe stenosis and an insufficient collateral circulation.
The previously performed retrospective study yielded promising results, but had some methodological limitations. Pressure measurements in the conducted study were only obtained in a subset of CMI patients by the decision of the interventional radiologist, with pressure measurements in general only performed when the radiologist was in doubt about the significance of the stenosis. This could have potentially led to selection bias and makes reproducibility of this study difficult to the general population of CMI patients as a whole. In the proposed study, the investigator will perform pressure measurements in the general population of CMI patients with a consensus diagnosis of CMI who are scheduled for endovascular treatment, hypothesizing that stenosis grade (%) alone cannot predict hemodynamic significance accurately. By obtaining pressure measurements in all CMI patients, including borderline, high-grade stenoses and occlusions, the investigators aim to evaluate the (in)sufficiency of the mesenteric collateral network by measuring pressure gradients over the stenotic lesion. The investigators hope such pressure gradients can predict clinical treatment success for all CMI patients. If positive results are obtained in this study, the investigators hope these measurements can serve as a decision-making tool in suspected CMI patients (to stent or not to stent).
In an in-vitro study (currently under submission) in which postprandial states in the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and celiac artery (CA) were simulated, pressure measurements were obtained using a 4Fr macrocatheter, microcatheter and pressure wire. It showed that especially for a stenosis ≥75% or a longer stenosis, the 4Fr catheter tended to overestimate the fractional flow reserve (FFR) when compared to the microcatheter, due to partial obstruction of the residual vessel lumen by the relatively large size of the 4Fr catheter compared to microcatheter or pressure wire. Taking this into consideration together with a wider applicability and lower costs, they recommended the microcatheter for clinical use.
In addition, intra-arterial stress pressure measurements with a vasodilator (nitroglycerin) could make the measurements more reliable, since intestinal ischemia mainly occurs after a meal when blood flow is maximal and expected to increase by 30-150%. Ischemia in CMI is thus temporary and this dynamic process causes false negative tests when blood flow is not maximal. Intra-arterial injection of nitroglycerin is able to increase the mesenteric blood flow, thereby challenging the compensatory capacity of the mesenteric circulation and predicting clinical success of revascularization. In a retrospective study, the Pd/Pa ratio after administration of nitroglycerin yielded the most promising results with the highest sensitivity and specificity.
Intra-arterial nitroglycerin is already routinely administered during coronary angiography for cardiology patients. Moreover, intra-arterial vasodilators can be used as treatment for acute nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI). In the retrospective study, no adverse events related to intra-arterial nitroglycerin had occurred, making intra-arterial pressure measurements a safe and useful tool to guide future treatment decisions (to stent or not to stent). Successful implementation of this strategy could result in a substantial reduction of the number of unbeneficial mesenteric artery revascularizations, thereby avoiding potential loss of quality of life due to complications and a reduction of healthcare expenses.
Intra-arterial pressure measurements could also enlighten the debate on other topics regarding mesenteric artery revascularization. Current guidelines define a stenosis severity of ≥70% as significant in single vessel disease, while a ≥50% stenosis of the SMA is considered significant when accompanied by a ≥70% stenosis of the CA. These definitions are mainly based on expert opinion and cannot be supported with solid evidence. Intra-arterial pressure measurements could prove whether use of the current definitions should be continued or whether the definitions should be revised. The latter seems more probable, since hemodynamic significance of a mesenteric artery stenosis depends on a combination of both stenosis severity and the compensatory capacity of the collateral circulation, which cannot be assessed on computed tomography angiography (CTA) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). A future definition could state that pressure measurements are mandatory in all patients to confirm that revascularization is indicated.
The current recommendation to revascularize both mesenteric arteries in patients with multivessel disease of CA and SMA is another example of a recommendation that could be revised based on results of intra-arterial pressure measurements. Pressure measurements could identify those patients in whom stenting of both vessels is indicated. Measurement of normal pressures in the CA, after SMA revascularization, suggests that the CA stenosis is no longer hemodynamically relevant. Revascularization of the CA is in this case no longer indicated and both the possible complications of CA revascularization and the unneeded expenses of CA stenting can be avoided.
Intra-arterial pressure measurements are currently the most promising tool to guide clinical decision-making in patients with suspected CMI. Implementation of pressure measurements could result in major improvements in quality of life by tailoring treatment to the patient's needs, thereby improving the clinical success of mesenteric artery revascularization and decreasing complication risks. This will ultimately result in a reduction of population-based healthcare costs by facilitating allocation of healthcare resources to those patients actually benefitting from treatment. The DMIS has designed a multicenter study to determine the predictive value of intra-arterial pressure measurements after administration of nitroglycerin using a microcatheter to predict clinical success of mesenteric artery revascularization, to set an optimal cut-off for the guidance of treatment decisions, and to determine cost-effectiveness of future clinical implementation of intra-arterial pressure measurements.
Primary Objective:
\- To assess the predictive performance of the Pd/Pa ratio after administration of a vasodilator to predict the clinical success of mesenteric artery stenting
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Patients with a consensus diagnosis of chronic mesenteric ischemia
Patients with a consensus diagnosis of chronic mesenteric ischemia who are scheduled for endovascular treatment
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Age ≥18 years of age
* Patients who gave informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
* Common origin of the SMA and CA (normal variant)
* Patients unable to give informed consent
* Pregnancy
* Other criteria the physician considers not compatible with this study
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Erasmus Medical Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Kay Pieterman
Radiologist, MD, PhD
Locations
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Medisch Spectrum Twente
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Franciscus
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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MEC-2024-0491 / 12330
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