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CA Gottschall

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PubMed1998

Detection of Restenosis After Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty by an Angiographic Score.

BACKGROUND: Restenosis, or ÒAchilles heelÓ of balloon angioplasty, remains in a range near 30% and cannot be predicted with certainty. To find adequate methods for its foresight is a challenge. OBJECTIVES: To determine risk factors and an angiographic score to predict the appearance of restenosis after one-site percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). METHODS: We restudied prospectively 315 (239 men, 76 women, age range from 29 to 78, 53.6 +/- 9.5 years) of 360 patients who underwent PTCA to a native coronary artery. The study didnÕt include patients with left main disease, total occlusion, side-branch involvement, ostial stenosis, acute phase of myocardial infarction or those who repeat PTCA. Two-hundred twenty-eight patients underwent PTCA of the left anterior descending artery, 56 of the right coronary artery and 31 of the left circumflex artery. RESULTS: Restenosis, defined as a luminal renarrowing > 50% at follow-up, was present in 82 (26%) patients between 1 and 8 months after the procedure. Univariate and multivariate analysis revealed four vascular factors related to restenosis (p < 0.05): a) lesion length and; b) irregularity of the lesion borders before PTCA; c) perivascular and/or endovascular haziness and; d) intensity of residual stenosis after PTCA. To construct the score, a zero was given to a lesion length < 8 mm; to smooth lesion borders; to residual stenosis up to 20%; and to absence of haziness after PTCA. A one was given to a lesion length between 8 and 10 mm; and to a lesion with irregular borders. A two was given to a lesion length > 10 mm. A three was given to a residual stenosis > 20%; and to the presence of haziness after PTCA. The sum of all terms was considered the final score. So, it could oscillate from 0 to 9. Calculated score from 0 to > 5 showed respective restenosis rates of (%): 5.2; 15.1; 24.0; 39.4; 44.8; 60.8; and 84.2. The calculated correlation coefficient (0.98) among the scored values and the correspondent restenosis rates was highly significant (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: It is concluded that restenosis is primarily a multifactorial problem based on vascular factors and may be predicted with a high degree of probability by the proposed score.

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PubMed1997

Changes in Left Ventricular Function After Coronary Recanalization by Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA).

Forty-six patients (21 with stable angina and 25 with chronic myocardial infarction, 37 men) with a total chronic proximal coronary occlusion and collateral vessels to the distal part of the occluded artery (30 LAD, 10 RCA and 6 CX properly distributed in both groups) were studied angiographically before and 2 to 8 months (mean 6) after balloon angioplasty. The patients were divided in six subgroups: A) Angina pectoris no matter the result of recanalization (n = 21); B) Myocardial infarction no matter the result of recanalization (n = 25); C) Angina pectoris with successful recanalization and open coronary (O.C.) > 50% at follow-up (n = 13); D) Angina pectoris with unsuccessful recanalization and/or restenosis or closed coronary (C.C.) at follow-up (n = 8); E) Myocardial infarction with successful recanalization and O.C. > 50% at follow-up (n = 8); F) Myocardial infarction with unsuccessful recanalization and/or restenosis or C.C. at follow-up (n = 17). No subgroup showed statistical differences (p > 0.05) in LVEDP before (B) and at follow-up (FU). On the other hand, several measurements were statistically different in the subgroup A at B and at FU: Ejection fraction (EF) [57.3 +/- 12.3 and 64.2 +/- 19.4%; p = 0.02]; Regional wall motion (RWM) measured in the region of the affected coronary [18.7 +/- 9.6 and 23.6 +/- 11.8%; p = 0.05]; Minimal wall motion (MWM) measured in the site of lesser parietal movement [14.3 +/- 13.1 and 25.8 +/- 26.2%; p = 0.02]. In the subgroup C the following differences were observed: EF [58.4 +/- 12.3 and 69.0 +/- 12.4%; p = 0.003]; RWM [16.3 +/- 8.4 and 25.4 +/- 8.2%; p = 0.005]; MWM [14.7 +/- 15.1 and 27.9 +/- 18.0%; p = 0.0001]. In the other considered subgroups we did not reach significant differences (p > 0.05) in these measurements. We conclude that recanalization of a chronic coronary occlusion improves left ventricular contractile function in the presence of viable myocardium and that MSF is the most sensitive among the studied variables to separate anginal patients from the patients without viable myocardium after successful recanalization.

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