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Table 3 Diagnostic performance of FFRCTA, FFRSS and CCTA on a per-vessel and -patient basis

From: A study of noninvasive fractional flow reserve derived from a simplified method based on coronary computed tomography angiography in suspected coronary artery disease

Measure

Per-vessel

Per-patient

FFRCTA ≤0.8 (95% CI)

FFRSS ≤0.8 (95% CI)

CCTA stenosis >50% (95% CI)

FFRCTA ≤0.8 (95% CI)

FFRSS ≤0.8 (95% CI)

CCTA stenosis >50% (95% CI)

Accuracy

80.6 (64.9–90.2)

75.0 (58.9–86.3)

61.6 (44.8–75.2)

79.3 (61.6–90.1)

72.4 (54.3–85.3)

62.1 (44.0–77.3)

Sensitivity

94.1 (71.3–99.9)

94.1 (73.0–98.9)

88.2 (63.6–98.5)

93.7 (69.8–99.8)

93.7 (71.7–98.9)

87.5 (61.7–98.4)

Specificity

68.4 (43.4–87.4)

57.9 (36.3–76.9)

36.8 (16.3–61.6)

61.5 (31.6–86.1)

46.2 (23.2–70.9)

30.7 (9.1–61.4)

PPV

72.7 (49.8–89.3)

66.7 (46.7–82.1)

55.6 (35.3–74.5)

75.0 (50.9–91.3)

68.2 (47.3–83.6)

60.9 (38.5–80.3)

NPV

92.9 (66.1–99.8)

91.7 (64.6–98.5)

77.8 (40–97.2)

88.9 (51.8–99.7)

85.7 (48.7–97.4)

66.7 (22.3–95.7)

+LR

2.9 (1.5–5.8)

2.2 (1.7–2.9)

1.4 (1.0–2.1)

2.4 (1.2–4.9)

1.7 (1.3–2.3)

1.3 (0.8–1.9)

−LR

0.09 (0.01–0.6)

0.1 (0.0–0.8)

0.32 (0.08–1.3)

0.1 (0.01–0.7)

0.1 (0.0–1.4)

0.4 (0.09–1.9)

  1. CI confidence interval, +LR positive likelihood ratio, −LR negative likelihood ratio, NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value