RIPCORD 2: influence of routine pressure wire assessment on management strategy of coronary angiography for diagnosis of chest pain - interview with Nick Curzen

Reported from the European Society of Cardiology ESC Congress 2021

Panos Xaplanteris interviews Nick Curzen about this study on FFR-guided assessment of patients with chest pain when compared with angiographic guidance alone which was presented during ESC Congress 2021.

  1. What questions did the study seek to answer and what were the main results?
  2. How does RIPCORD 2 differ from previous studies on physiology driven revascularisation?
  3. Was every troponinemia at the emergency department considered to be a NSTEMI, thus eligible for inclusion?
  4. Did results differ for patients with stable angina and stabilised NSTEMI patients?
  5. Treatment options for FFR positive patients included OMT, PCI and CABG. How did these groups fare over time?
  6. Comment on how these results differ from the results of the FUTURE trial?
  7. Did the open label design of the study influence QoL and angina status reported by patients?
  8. Will this study change the uptake of pressure wire utilisation?
  9. Is there a RIPCORD 3 on the way?

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Authors

Panagiotis Xaplanteris

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

CHU Saint-Pierre - Bruxelles, Belgium

Nick Curzen

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Southampton General Hospital - Southampton, United Kingdom

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