An interventional study of Traditional SYNTAX scoring and QFR-Based Functional SYNTAX Score System in Cardiovascular Diseases, sponsored by First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-06-13.
Sponsored by First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
The revascularization treatment of multi vessel coronary artery disease (MVD) has always been a complex and important field in the treatment of coronary heart disease. The relative benefits of PCI and CABG vascular reconstruction strategies have always been a controversial topic in the field of MVD treatment. At present, SYNTAX score is the most commonly used imaging scoring system in clinical practice for quantitatively evaluating the complexity of coronary artery MVD, preliminary selection of revascularization strategies, and risk stratification. However, the SYNTAX score is entirely based on anatomical information of the lesion, and the assessment of the degree of coronary artery ischemia caused by the lesion is not accurate enough. Relying solely on anatomical structures for scoring may overestimate the harm of non ischemic lesions. The functional SYNTAX score (FSS) combines functional assessment of coronary artery lesions with anatomical structure scoring, only including lesions with hemodynamic significance, effectively optimizing the traditional SYNTAX scoring system. Compared with traditional SYNTAX scoring, FSS can reduce the number of high-risk patients, objectively evaluate the functional significance of lesions, and guide PCI treatment, significantly improving clinical prognosis.
Quantitative flow ratio (QFR) is a novel method for evaluating the functional significance of coronary artery stenosis. However, it is currently unclear whether FSS based on QFR can achieve objective and accurate risk stratification, guide the selection of revascularization strategies, and improve the long-term prognosis of patients with coronary artery MVD. Higher quality prospective clinical trials need to be designed for verification.
Therefore, this study will use a functional SYNTAX scoring system based on QFR (QFR-FSS) to conduct a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the guiding value of QFR-FSS in selecting revascularization strategies for patients with coronary artery MVD and its impact on long-term cardiovascular prognosis.
5,368 studies on the registry are indexed under Cardiovascular Diseases; 939 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 1,200 is above the median of 100 across 3,084 interventional studies indexed under Cardiovascular Diseases.
Browse Cardiovascular Diseases studies →First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is the lead sponsor of 74 studies on the registry; 11 are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.
Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Using traditional SYNTAX scoring to guide the selection of revascularization strategies
Procedure: Traditional SYNTAX scoring
Using QFR-Based Functional SYNTAX Score System to guide the selection of revascularization strategies
Procedure: QFR-Based Functional SYNTAX Score System
Using traditional SYNTAX scoring to guide the selection of revascularization strategies
Using QFR-Based Functional SYNTAX Score System to guide the selection of revascularization strategies
The incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE)
The incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) 2 years after PCI or CABG surgery, defined as the composite endpoint of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, and ischemia driven revascularization.
Time frame: 2 years
Composite endpoint of cardiogenic death and myocardial infarction
Composite endpoint of cardiogenic death and myocardial infarction
Time frame: 2 years
Disease success rate
Disease success rate: including lesion success evaluated by contrast imaging (evaluated by the central laboratory, with a visual residual stenosis degree of less than 30% and TIMI blood flow grade 3 for lesions treated with stent implantation); The residual stenosis degree of lesions treated with balloon dilation is less than 50% visually, TIMI blood flow grade 3, and the functional evaluation of lesions is successful (evaluated by the central laboratory, QFR ≥ 0.80 immediately after surgery).
Time frame: 2 years
Clinical success rate
Clinical success rate: On the basis of successful imaging lesions at 30 days, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery, the incidence of MACE within the same hospitalization period (up to 7 days).
Time frame: 2 years
The incidence of myocardial infarction
The incidence of myocardial infarction at 30 days, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery, including perioperative myocardial infarction (SCAI definition) and spontaneous myocardial infarction.
Time frame: 2 years
The incidence of all revascularization
The incidence of all revascularization (ischemia driven, non ischemia driven revascularization; infarct related artery, non infarct related artery revascularization, culprit and non culprit lesion revascularization) at 30 days, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery.
Time frame: 2 years
The incidence of confirmed and possible stent thrombosis
The incidence of confirmed and possible stent thrombosis (ARC-2 definition) at 30 days, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery (including stent thrombosis within the time range of acute, subacute, late, and late onset).
Time frame: 2 year
Postoperative quality of life scores
Postoperative quality of life scores at 2 years (EQ-5D Scale).
Time frame: 2 year
No study locations are listed for this record.
Start is estimated for Jan 2026; primary completion for Dec 2029, 47 months later.
Of 1,077 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Cardiovascular Diseases, half reached primary completion within 26 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 48. This study's planned 47 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 1,216 studies reached it within 26 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 49.
Cardiovascular Diseases covers many different conditions, not one, so the studies compared here vary widely. Read these figures as a rough guide.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
This study is not yet recruiting, as verified in Jun 2025. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University