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Chen D, Krinsky C, Phillips M, Allred C, Khan A, Liu LB, Christians U, Yazdani SK. Design and use of an ex vivo peripheral simulating bioreactor system for pharmacokinetic analysis of a drug coated stent. Bioeng Transl Med 2024; 9:e10618. [PMID: 38435812 PMCID: PMC10905536 DOI: 10.1002/btm2.10618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Currently, there are no ex vivo systems that can model the motion of peripheral arteries and allow for the evaluation of pharmacokinetics (PK) of endovascular devices. The objective of this study was to develop a novel peripheral simulating bioreactor system to evaluate drug pharmacokinetics of stents. We utilized 3D-printed and off-the-shelf components to construct a peripheral-simulating bioreactor system capable of mimicking the motion of peripheral arteries. Servo motors were primarily used to shorten/elongate, twist, and bend explanted porcine carotid arteries. To evaluate the pharmacokinetics in the bioreactor, drug-eluting stents were deployed within explanted arteries and subjected to vascular motion along with pulsatile flow conditions. Following 30 min and 24 h, the arteries were removed, and paclitaxel levels were measured. Scanning electron microscopy was also performed to evaluate the stent surface. Arterial paclitaxel levels of the stent-treated arteries were found to be higher at 30 min than at 24 h following pulsatile and no vascular motion and even higher at 24 h following pulsatile flow and vascular motion. The residual drug on the stent significantly decreased from 30 min to 24 h. Scanning electron microscopy confirmed the loss of paclitaxel coating at 24 h and greater disturbance in stents under peripheral motion versus pulsatile only. This system represents the first ex vivo system to determine the PK of drug-eluting stents under physiological flow and vascular motion conditions. This work provides a novel system for a quick and inexpensive preclinical tool to study acute drug tissue concentration kinetics of drug-releasing interventional vascular devices designed for peripheral applications.
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- Danyi Chen
- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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- iC42 Clinical Research and DevelopmentUniversity of ColoradoAuroraColoradoUSA
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- Wake Forest UniversityDepartment of EngineeringWinston‐SalemNorth CarolinaUSA
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Cao Z, Li J, Fang Z, Feierkaiti Y, Zheng X, Jiang X. The factors influencing the efficiency of drug-coated balloons. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:947776. [PMCID: PMC9602405 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.947776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The drug-coated balloon (DCB) is an emerging percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) device that delivers drugs to diseased vessels to decrease the rate of vascular stenosis. Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that DCBs tend to have both good safety and efficacy profiles, leading to extended application indications in the clinic, including in-stent restenosis (ISR) for metal stents such as drug-eluting stents (DESs), small vascular disease, bifurcation disease, large vascular disease, acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and high bleeding risk. However, some previous clinical data have suggested that DCBs performed less effectively than DESs. No studies or reviews have systematically discussed the improvement strategies for better DCB performance until now. Drug loss during the process of delivery to the target lesion and inefficient delivery of the coating drug to the diseased vascular wall are two key mechanisms that weaken the efficiency of DCBs. This review is the first to summarize the key influencing factors of DCB efficiency in terms of balloon structure and principles, and then it analyzes how these factors cause outcomes in practice based on current clinical trial studies of DCBs in the treatment of different types of lesions. We also provide some recommendations for improving DCBs to contribute to better DCB performance by improving the design of DCBs and combining other factors in clinical practice.
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- Zheng Cao
- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China,*Correspondence: Xiaoxin Zheng,
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- Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Wuhan, Hubei, China,Xuejun Jiang,
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Tang Y, Qiao S, Su X, Chen Y, Jin Z, Chen H, Xu B, Kong X, Pang W, Liu Y, Yu Z, Li X, Li H, Zhao Y, Wang Y, Li W, Tian J, Guan C, Xu B, Gao R, Gao R, Qiao S, Gao R, Xu B, Tang Y, Qiao S, Su X, Zeng Y, Yang Q, Zhang J, Gao R, Qiao S, Xu B, Tang Y, Guan C, Tian J, Chen J, Wu Y, Yan H, Yang Y, Su X, Wang M, Wang J, Xu W, Chen Y, Jin Q, Jin Z, Yang D, Meng S, Chen H, Liang S, Yao D, Li D, Xu B, Song J, Dai Q, Wang K, Kang L, Wang L, Kong X, Wang H, Wang L, Pang W, Wan J, Liu Y, Wei L, He F, Xing X, Yu Z, Wang D, Jin R, Li X, Xue Y, Wang B, Li H, Wang M, Wang J. Drug-Coated Balloon Versus Drug-Eluting Stent for Small-Vessel Disease. JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2018; 11:2381-2392. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Revised: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Herten M, Stahlhoff S, Imm B, Schönefeld E, Schwindt A, Torsello GB. [Drug-coated balloons in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). History and current level of evidence]. Radiologe 2016; 56:240-53. [PMID: 26885653 DOI: 10.1007/s00117-015-0073-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite initially encouraging technical success after femoropopliteal PTA, restenosis remains the major challenge in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). The main cause of restenosis is neointimal hyperplasia which can be suppressed by antiproliferative drugs. Drug-coated balloons (DCB) or drug-eluting stents (DES) are used for the inhibition of restenosis. OBJECTIVES The present article gives an overview of DCB development, actual DCB systems for femoro- and infrapopliteal use, displays the outcomes of randomized clinical trials and the discusses the evidence for the DCB treatment in PAD. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed in i) medical journals (i. e. MEDLINE), ii) in international registers for clinical studies (i. e. www.clinicaltrials.gov ) and in iii) scientific session abstracts. RESULTS The clinical evidence of the PTX-DCB of the first and following generation has been shown in several controlled randomized trials. CONCLUSIONS Major advantages of the DCBs lie in leaving no stent scaffold behind, the immediate release of high drug concentrations with a single dosage, their efficacy in areas, where stents have been contra-indicated until now and its use for secondary interventions. As their effect seems to be limited in severely calcified lesions, prior plaque preconditioning or removal could be advantageous. First positive results data supporting this hypothesis do exist.
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- M Herten
- Klinik für Vaskuläre und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Deutschland.
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- Gefäßchirurgie, St. Franziskus-Hospital Münster, Münster, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Vaskuläre und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Deutschland
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- Institut für Ausbildung und Studienangelegenheiten (IfAS), Medizinischen Fakultät, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Deutschland
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- Gefäßchirurgie, St. Franziskus-Hospital Münster, Münster, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Vaskuläre und Endovaskuläre Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Deutschland.,Gefäßchirurgie, St. Franziskus-Hospital Münster, Münster, Deutschland
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Herten M, Stahlhoff S, Bisdas T, Donas K, Schwindt A, Torsello G, Schönefeld E. Medikamentenbeschichtete Ballonkatheter in der Behandlung der peripheren arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit: Entwicklung der Methode und aktuelle Studienlage. Gefässchirurgie 2013; 18:520-32. [DOI: 10.1007/s00772-013-1226-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Since its inception in the 1960s, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) evolved as one of the most common, best documented, and most effective of all major surgical treatments for ischemic heart disease. Despite its widespread use, however, the outcome is not always completely satisfactory. The objective of this review is to highlight the physical determinants of biomechanical design of CABG so that future procedures would have prolonged patency and better outcome. Our central axiom postulates the existence of a mechanical homeostatic state of the blood vessel, i.e., the variation in vessel wall stresses and strains are relatively small under physiological conditions. Any perturbation of mechanical homeostasis leads to growth and remodeling. In this sense, stenosis and failure of a graft may be viewed as an adaptation process gone awry. We outline the principles of engineering design and discuss the biofluid and biosolid mechanics principles that may have the greatest bearing on mechanical homeostasis and the long-term outcome of CABG.
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- Ghassan S Kassab
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2715, USA.
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Li JM, Singh MJ, Itani M, Vasiliu C, Hendricks G, Baker SP, Hale JE, Rohrer MJ, Cutler BS, Nelson PR. Recombinant human thrombomodulin inhibits arterial neointimal hyperplasia after balloon injury. J Vasc Surg 2004; 39:1074-83. [PMID: 15111864 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2003.12.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Smooth muscle cell proliferation is a major pathophysiologic factor in injury-induced neointimal hyperplasia and recurrent stenosis. We have demonstrated that recombinant human thrombomodulin (rTM) inhibits thrombin-induced arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation in vitro. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of rTM on neointimal hyperplasia in vivo. METHODS A rabbit femoral artery balloon injury model was used. Bilateral superficial femoral arteries were deendothelialized with a 2F arterial embolectomy catheter. rTM (145 microg/kg; 2.0 microg/mL in circulation) or Tris-hydrochloride vehicle control was administered intravenously during the procedure, then either discontinued (group A) or administered twice daily for an additional 48 hours (group B). Rabbits were euthanized at 4 days and at 1, 2, and 4 weeks, and femoral artery specimens were prepared with in situ perfusion fixation and paraffin embedding. Luminal, intima, media, and whole artery areas were quantitated with digital imaging computerized planimetry. Intima-media and lumen-whole artery ratios were calculated. The injury-induced inflammatory reaction was also evaluated with light microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and immunohistochemical and immunohistofluorescence staining. RESULTS In the buffer control group, neointimal hyperplasia after femoral artery balloon injury was evident at 2 weeks, and was pronounced at 4 weeks (P <.0001). Infusion of rTM significantly inhibited intimal hyperplasia at both 2 and 4 weeks (P <.0001). In group A, rTM reduced the intima-media ratio by 27% and 39% at 2 and 4 weeks, respectively. Extended administration of rTM (group B) resulted in inhibition of hyperplasia by 57% and 30% at 2 and 4 weeks, respectively, but failed to reach significance compared with the shorter exposure. rTM infusion significantly inhibited thrombosis (8.1-fold) compared with the buffer control group (P =.012). rTM had no significant effect on lumen area or lumen-whole artery ratio, but treated arteries demonstrated significantly less compensatory dilatation (P =.045), as measured by whole artery area in response to less intimal hyperplasia. rTM administration inhibited platelet adhesion and inhibition of neutrophil infiltration to a degree that approached statistical significance (P =.0675). CONCLUSIONS Systemic intravenous administration of rTM significantly decreases neointimal hyperplasia and improves patency in the rabbit femoral artery after balloon injury. In addition to exhibiting antithrombotic and antiproliferative effects, rTM may also invoke an anti-inflammatory mechanism, and may alter vascular remodeling in a multidimensional role to inhibit recurrent stenosis after arterial injury.
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- Jian-Ming Li
- Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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Lu X, Guo X, Linares C, Kassab GS. A new method to denude the endothelium without damage to media: structural, functional, and biomechanical validation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2004; 286:H1889-94. [PMID: 15072973 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00863.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The intimial thickening that occurs in human and animal atherogenesis can be induced by mechanical injury to the endothelium. The objective of the present study was to develop a new method to induce arterial endothelial injury without damage to the media for future investigations of mechanisms of intimal thickening and atherogenesis. A specifically designed catheter was inserted into the common femoral artery of Wistar rats (n = 9) through an arteriotomic mouth. After application of Tyrode solution containing 0.14 M KCl on the surface of the vessel, the vessel contracted onto the catheter. The catheter was then moved back and forth to scrape away the endothelium. The left common femoral artery of the same rat was subjected to the standard balloon injury model. The two models were evaluated structurally, functionally, and biomechanically. Structurally, we verified that both techniques remove the endothelium, but the balloon method damages the media. Functionally, we examined the contractile response of the artery to [K+] and norepinephrine 2 days after the denudation. We found that the right femoral artery underwent contraction in response to [K+], whereas the left artery did not. Furthermore, neither artery responded to norepinephrine. Biomechanically, we measured the pressure-diameter relationship and the zero-stress state of the vessel and computed the stress-strain relation. The circumferential stretch ratios at 120 mmHg were 1.38 +/- 0.08 for the control, 1.41 +/- 0.08 (P > 0.05) for the new method, and 1.56 +/- 0.09 for the balloon injury (P < 0.05). The opening angles at the zero-stress state were 113 +/- 21 degrees for the control, 102 +/- 18 degrees for the new method (P > 0.05), and 8 +/- 13 degrees for the balloon injury (P < 0.001). In conclusion, the new method removes the endothelium while maintaining the structure, contractile function, and biomechanical properties of the vessel.
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- Xiao Lu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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Margolin L, Fishbein I, Banai S, Golomb G, Reich R, Perez LS, Gertz SD. Metalloproteinase inhibitor attenuates neointima formation and constrictive remodeling after angioplasty in rats: augmentative effect of alpha(v)beta(3) receptor blockade. Atherosclerosis 2002; 163:269-77. [PMID: 12052473 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9150(02)00035-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Release of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) from smooth muscle and foam cells following arterial injury facilitates cell migration, neointimal hyperplasia, and vessel wall remodeling. Inhibition of MMP activity using the hydroxamate, zinc-chelating mimicers of collagen, Batimastat and Marimastat, has shown efficacy in reducing constrictive vascular remodeling 6 weeks after experimental angioplasty but not intimal hyperplasia. Vitronectin receptor (alpha(v)beta(3)) blockade interferes with binding of this integrin to MMP-2 and proteolyzed collagen, thereby reducing cell invasion. This study tests the effect of MMP inhibition, with and without vitronectin receptor (alpha(v)beta(3)) blockade, on neointima formation and arterial remodeling in a long-term model (up to 212 months) of balloon injury in vivo. Male Sabra rats were treated with Batimastat (BB-94, British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd., 30 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) and/or the alpha(v)beta(3) receptor inhibiting RGD peptide, G-Pen-GRGDSPCA (GIBCO BRL, 0.1 micromol), administered as a perivascular gel to the common carotid artery after balloon injury. Animals were sacrificed 3, 14, 25, and 75 days (n=21, 23, 22, and 21) after injury. Animals treated with BB-94, peptide, or both had markedly increased absolute luminal area with markedly reduced luminal cross-sectional-area narrowing by neointima and intima-to-media area ratio at all time points except for 3 days after balloon injury versus non-treated, ballooned animals. Combined treatment was significantly more effective than either one alone. Constrictive remodeling, most marked 212 months after balloon injury, was prevented at this time point in all treated animals. The pattern of reduction in luminal narrowing, neointimal formation, and constrictive remodeling across treatment groups correlated very significantly with the reduction in tissue MMP activity as determined by zymography at 3 days. Confirmation of the efficacy of this strategy in larger animals should be the next step toward testing the applicability of this novel approach to the interventional setting.
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- Leon Margolin
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Okura H, Hayase M, Shimodozono S, Bonneau HN, Yock PG, Fitzgerald PJ. Impact of pre-interventional arterial remodeling on subsequent vessel behavior after balloon angioplasty: a serial intravascular ultrasound study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001; 38:2001-5. [PMID: 11738307 DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(01)01642-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of pre-intervention arterial remodeling on subsequent vessel behavior following balloon angioplasty. BACKGROUND Positive arterial remodeling before intervention has been shown to have a negative impact on the clinical outcome after nonstented coronary interventional procedures. However, the mechanism of interventions in coronary vessel geometry over time is less well characterized. METHODS Serial (pre-, post- and follow-up) intravascular ultrasound analysis was performed in 46 native coronary lesions. Positive remodeling (PR) was defined as vessel area (VA) at the target lesion greater than that of average reference segments. Intermediate or negative remodeling (IR/NR) was defined as VA at the target lesion less than or equal to that of average reference segment. Remodeling index was defined as VA at the target lesion site divided by that of average references. RESULTS Pre-interventional PR and IR/NR were present in 21 (46%) and 25 (54%) of 46 patients, respectively. At follow-up, the change in plaque area was similar between the two groups (1.3 +/- 2.1 vs. 1.2 +/- 2.1 mm(2), p = 0.840). Lesions with PR showed a significantly smaller change in VA than those with IR/NR (-0.2 +/- 2.5 vs. 1.4 +/- 2.3 mm(2), p = 0.03). As a result, late lumen loss was significantly larger in lesions whose pre-intervention configuration exhibited PR (-1.5 +/- 1.8 vs. 0.2 +/- 1.6 mm(2), p = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS Lesions with PR appear to have less capacity to compensate for further plaque growth after balloon angioplasty and thus show a proportional increase in late lumen loss. This may in part explain the less favorable clinical outcomes of positively remodeled lesions.
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- H Okura
- Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Restenosis after angioplasty or stenting remains the major limitation of both procedures. A vast array of drug therapies has been used to prevent restenosis, but they have proven to be predominantly unsuccessful. Recent trends in drug therapy have attempted to refine the molecular and biological targets of therapy, based on the assumption that a single biological process or molecule is critical to restenosis. In contrast, both stenting and brachytherapy, which are highly nonspecific, can successfully reduce restenosis after angioplasty or stenting, respectively. This review examines the biology of both angioplasty and stent stenosis, focussing on human studies. We also review the landmark human trials that have definitively proven successful therapies, such as stenting and brachytherapy. We suggest that the successful trials of stenting and brachytherapy and the failure of other treatments have highlighted the shortcomings of conventional animal models of arterial intervention, and gaps in our knowledge of human disease. In contrast to arguments advocating gene therapy, these studies suggest that the most likely successful drug therapy will have a wide therapeutic range, targeting as many of the components or biological processes contributing to restenosis as possible.
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- M R Bennett
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Centre for Clinical Investigation, Box 110, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK.
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Moura A, Yamada A, Hauer D, Perussolo R, Munhoz C, Canova R, Oliva L, Precoma D. Samarium-153 for intravascular irradiation therapy with liquid-filled balloons to prevent restenosis: acute and long-term results in a hypercholesterolemic rabbit restenosis model. Cardiovasc Radiat Med 2001; 2:69-74. [PMID: 11340010 DOI: 10.1016/s1522-1865(00)00077-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND It has been shown that irradiation with either beta and gamma sources inhibit neointimal formation. Samarium-153 ((153)Sm) is an isotope with 0.8 MeV, subdivided in three different beta energies and 103 keV of gamma energy. This compound has been tested and used in humans for palliation of pain from bone metastases. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of brachytherapy with (153)Sm-filled balloon to inhibit neointimal formation in rabbits after balloon overstretch injury. METHODS Nineteen rabbits underwent balloon injury in their iliac arteries. In 12 animals (control), oversized balloons filled with saline solution were inflated up to 5 atm for a period of 5 min. In 7 rabbits, the same procedure was performed but using balloons filled with (153)Sm. In all cases, both iliac arteries were treated. The prescribed radiation dose was 15 Gy at 1 mm depth. After 30 days, the animals were sacrificed and their arterial segments were analyzed. Radiation exposure at the animal chest to the table and at a distance of 1 m from the table was measured. RESULTS Histopathologic analysis showed a striking reduction in the amount of neointima in the irradiated arteries compared with control vessels (0.36+/-0.21 vs. 1.07+/-0.56 mm(2), P<.01). The dose delivered to the animal chest was 21.5 mR/h, whereas only 1.9 mR/h was measured at the table and virtually no radiation could be detected at a distance of 1 m from the table. CONCLUSIONS Brachytherapy with (153)Sm was feasible with minimal personnel exposure radiation and effectively inhibited neointimal formation in this experimental model. These results warrant further experimental and clinical investigations.
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- A Moura
- Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná and CERMEN, R. Prodente de Moraes, 644, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
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Costa MA, Kozuma K, Gaster AL, van Der Giessen WJ, Sabaté M, Foley DP, Kay IP, Ligthart JM, Thayssen P, van Den Brand MJ, de Feyter PJ, Serruys PW. Three dimensional intravascular ultrasonic assessment of the local mechanism of restenosis after balloon angioplasty. Heart 2001; 85:73-9. [PMID: 11119468 PMCID: PMC1729576 DOI: 10.1136/heart.85.1.73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To assess the mechanism of restenosis after balloon angioplasty. DESIGN Prospective study. PATIENTS 13 patients treated with balloon angioplasty. INTERVENTIONS 111 coronary subsegments (2 mm each) were analysed after balloon angioplasty and at a six month follow up using three dimensional intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Qualitative and quantitative IVUS analysis. Total vessel (external elastic membrane), plaque, and lumen volume were measured in each 2 mm subsegment. Delta values were calculated (follow up - postprocedure). Remodelling was defined as any (positive or negative) change in total vessel volume. RESULTS Positive remodelling was observed in 52 subsegments while negative remodelling occurred in 44. Remodelling, plaque type, and dissection were heterogeneously distributed along the coronary segments. Plaque composition was not associated with changes in IVUS indices, whereas dissected subsegments had a greater increase in total vessel volume than those without dissection (1.7 mm(3) v -0.33 mm(3), p = 0.04). Change in total vessel volume was correlated with changes in lumen (p < 0.05, r = 0.56) and plaque volumes (p < 0.05, r = 0.64). The site with maximum lumen loss was not the same site as the minimum lumen area at follow up in the majority (n = 10) of the vessels. In the multivariate model, residual plaque burden had an influence on negative remodelling (p = 0.001, 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.391 to -0.108), whereas dissection had an effect on total vessel increase (p = 0.002, 95% CI 1.168 to 4.969). CONCLUSIONS The mechanism of lumen renarrowing after balloon angioplasty appears to be determined by unfavourable remodelling. However, different patterns of remodelling may occur in individual injured coronary segments, which highlights the complexity and influence of local factors in the restenotic process.
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- M A Costa
- Thoraxcenter, University Hospital Rotterdam Dijkzigt, Dr Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Heverhagen JT, Kalinowski M, Schwarz U, Klose KJ, Alfke H. Quantitative human in vivo evaluation of high resolution MRI for vessel wall morphometry after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. Magn Reson Imaging 2000; 18:985-9. [PMID: 11121702 DOI: 10.1016/s0730-725x(00)00187-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Visualization of the vessel wall after transluminal angioplasty is important to monitor the restenosis progress. Intravascular ultrasound proved its capabilities as an invasive procedure in many studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of high-resolution MRI as a non-invasive tool for follow-up after PTA. High-resolution magnetic resonance images (pixel size: 0.49 * 0.49 mm(2)) were acquired on a 1.0 T clinical scanner. Morphometry was conducted after conversion of DICOM images into TIFF format using ScionImage on a PC. In-vitro studies using a polyvinylchloride tube were evaluated by two independent investigators. Goldstandard was a caliper rule and direct radiography. Five patients were monitored before and 24 h, six weeks, three months and six months after PTA. In vivo measurements promised a good concordance for both investigators for area as well as for diameter measurements. Area measurements showed correlations up to r = 0.86 (p < 0.001) whereas the correlations of diameters were slightly inferior (r between 0.58 and 0.84; p < 0.005). Relocation of the same slice position in the follow up studies could be guaranteed using anatomic landmarks in the images. As a non-invasive tool to assess restenosis after PTA high-resolution MRI promises to be a reproducible technique. It is easy to identify the same vascular region in different studies due to neighboring anatomic landmarks. Progression of disease as well as success of pharmacologic treatment to prevent restenosis may be monitored.
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- J T Heverhagen
- Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the natural history of postangioplasty intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-detected dissections and to assess the influence of intracoronary beta-radiation on dissection resolution. BACKGROUND Intracoronary radiotherapy is considered to impair exaggerated vessel healing. Conversely, excessive healing impairment may increase the risk of complications due to unhealed dissection. Alternatively, residual dissection may represent an innocent marker of adequate therapy. METHODS Immediate postangioplasty and six-month follow-up IVUS studies of 94 patients in the IVUS substudy of the MultiVitamins and Probucol (MVP) trial and 26 nonstented patients in the Beta Energy Restenosis Trial (BERT) were analyzed for the presence or absence of dissection. RESULTS Of the 28 patients with postangioplasty dissections in MVP, only one had evidence of residual dissection at six months (95% confidence interval [CI] for failure rate 0.2%; 20.2%). Conversely, 9 of 16 dissections had healed in BERT (95% CI for failure rate 30.6%; 79.2%) (p < 0.0002). Nevertheless, an index based on dissection arc and length demonstrated improvement in the irradiated patients. Irradiated patients with residual dissections showed significant increase in lumen area at six-months (5.10 +/- 0.98 to 7.11 +/- 2.61 mm2, p < 0.02) not noted when there was resolution of the dissection (6.03 +/- 2.38 to 6.36 +/- 3.33 mm2, p = NS). In both groups the external elastic membrane area was unchanged at follow-up. CONCLUSIONS Resolution appears to be the natural history of IVUS-detected dissections in most cases. Significant resolution of dissection occurs following intracoronary beta-radiation as reflected in reduced dissection index at six-months in these patients, although significant impairment of vessel wall healing was noted.
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- D Meerkin
- Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada
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Since its introduction into clinical practice, more than 20 years ago, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has proven to be an effective, minimally invasive alternative to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). During this time there have been great improvements in the design of balloon catheters, operative procedures and adjuvant drug therapy, and this has resulted in low rates of primary failure and short-term complications. However, the potential benefits of angioplasty are diminished by the high rate of recurrent disease. Up to 40% of patients undergoing angioplasty develop clinically significant restenosis within a year of the procedure. Although the deployment of endovascular stents at the time of angioplasty improves the short-term outcome, 'in-stent' stenosis remains an enduring problem. In order to gain an insight into the mechanisms of restenosis, several experimental models of angioplasty have been developed. These have been used together with the tools provided by recent advances in molecular biology and catheter design to investigate restenosis in detail. It is now possible to deliver highly specific molecular antagonists, such as antisense gene sequences, to the site of injury. The knowledge provided by these studies may ultimately lead to novel forms of intervention. The present review is a synopsis of our current understanding of the pathological mechanisms of restenosis.
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- G A Ferns
- Centre for Clinical Science and Measurement, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford; The Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK.
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- Y G Wolf
- Department of Vascular Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel
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- W H Frishman
- Department of Medicine, New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, USA
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Buchanan MR, Brister SJ. Inhibition of chronic vessel wall intimal hyperplasia following acute anticoagulant treatment: relative effects of heparin and dermatan sulphate. Thromb Res 1998; 91:157-67. [PMID: 9736418 DOI: 10.1016/s0049-3848(98)00072-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Surface-bound thrombin which contributes to vessel wall hyperplasia, is resistant to inhibition by heparin/antithrombin III (/ATIII) but not to inhibition by dermatan sulphate/heparin cofactor II (/HCII). To determine the effects of heparin and dermatan sulphate on vessel wall hyperplasia after a first or second injury, rabbit carotid arteries first were injured, using a standard procedure (first injury). Half of the first-injury rabbits were given heparin, dermatan sulphate, or saline, 5 minutes before and at 30-minute intervals over 2 hours post-injury, and then allowed to recover. Four weeks later, the first-injury treated animals were killed and their injured carotid arteries were processed histologically. The remaining untreated first-injury rabbits were also allowed to recover. At 4 weeks, those rabbits were re-anesthetized and their first-injury arteries (which were occluded >75%), were isolated, and vessel wall lumen patency was re-established by endarterectomy (second injury). During this second injury, the animals were treated with heparin, dermatan sulphate, or saline as described above. Four weeks after this second injury, these rabbits were killed and their second injury arteries were processed histologically. Intimal hyperplasia determined histologically, was expressed as an x-fold increase in vessel wall cross-sectional area (i.e., [(media+intima area) media area]). Vessel wall lumen occlusion was expressed as [1-(lumen area/internal elastic lamina area) x 100; % occlusion]. Vessel wall area in the saline-treated animals, increased 2.6+/-1.2 and 2.4+/-1.0 fold respectively, means+/-SD, n = 12, within 4 weeks of the first and second injuries. These increases were due to intimal hyperplasia and associated with 75+/-19% and 79+/-21% occlusion of the vessel wall lumen, respectively. Heparin had little effect, whereas dermatan sulphate (1) decreased hyperplasia by 45% after the first injury and by 47% after the second injury, p<0.008 and <0.03, respectively, and (2) decreased vessel wall occlusion 47+/-12% and 33+/-5% after the first and second injury, respectively. We conclude that (1) dermatan sulphate/HCII may be a useful inhibitor of vessel wall hyperplasia following vessel wall injury, and (2) this effect can be achieved by an acute anticoagulant treatment at the time of injury, unlike heparin/ATIII.
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- M R Buchanan
- Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Le Blanche AF, Sibony M, Kollar A, Callard P, Bigot JM, Boudghene F. A new model of endovascularly induced renal artery stenosis in normocholesterolemic versus hypercholesterolemic rabbits. Invest Radiol 1998; 33:322-8. [PMID: 9647443 DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199806000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The authors determine the feasibility of creating renal artery stenosis by overdilatation and deendothelialization and compare the model in normocholesterolemic versus hypercholesterolemic rabbits. METHODS Thirty male New Zealand White rabbits were randomized into two groups: group A (n = 15) was fed a normal diet and group B (n = 15) was fed a cholesterol-rich diet 4 weeks before stenosis induction. An aortogram was performed, then the right renal artery was overdilated with an angioplasty balloon-catheter, and deendothelialized. After 6 weeks, groups A and B were compared by angiographic and pathologic study. RESULTS Comparison of group A versus group B showed that 12 arteries (80%) versus 6 (40%) were angiographically stenotic (P < 0.05); 14 (93%) versus 12 (80%) contained neointima (NS), 12 (80%) versus 3 (20%) showed medial disorganization (P < 0.01), and 9 (60%) versus 2 (13%) presented adventitial fibrosis (P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS A new model of endovascularly induced renal artery stenosis has been developed in rabbits. Medial proliferation and adventitial fibrosis are more frequent in normocholesterolemic rabbits.
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- A F Le Blanche
- Department of Radiology, Hôpital Universitaire Tenon, Paris, France.
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Nikol S, Esin S, Nekolla S, Huehns TY, Schirmer J, Schwaiger M, Höfling B. Use of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging angiography to follow-up arterial remodeling in an animal model. Angiology 1998; 49:251-8. [PMID: 9555927 DOI: 10.1177/000331979804900402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Appropriately sized arteries in small animals may be possible models for studying the remodeling process as occurs after arterial balloon injury in humans. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to noninvasively image tissue in vivo. To date, small animal angiography models have mostly used research-dedicated instruments and resolution, which are not universally available. Experiments were carried out on a rat aorta model of remodeling in vivo (n=40). Arteries were injured by oversized balloon dilation; control arteries were uninjured. Angiography imaging was performed immediately before sacrifice with an unmodified clinical MRI unit, a 1.5 Tesla MR tomograph with a 20-cm-diameter coil. Longitudinal MRI pictures of the aorta and morphometry of tissue sections to measure luminal and arterial wall areas were analyzed with use of computer-assisted techniques. Comparison of dimensions demonstrated correlation between MRI and histology measurements of the lumen. MRI and morphometry showed a gradual increase in mean luminal area over 6 weeks following injury. The lumen increase correlated with total arterial area and thickness. In this rat aorta model, remodeling documented at histology was followed-up in vivo. The use of such clinical MRI scanners has potential to reduce animal numbers needed to follow-up the remodeling process after therapeutic intervention.
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- S Nikol
- Medical Department I, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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Waksman R, Robinson KA, Crocker IR, Gravanis MB, Cipolla GD, Seung KB, King SB. Intracoronary radiation decreases the second phase of intimal hyperplasia in a repeat balloon angioplasty model of restenosis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1997; 39:475-80. [PMID: 9308953 DOI: 10.1016/s0360-3016(97)00324-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE Repeat balloon angioplasty is likely to induce intimal proliferation, which is associated with a higher restenosis rate. This study examined the effect of intracoronary ionizing radiation on restenotic lesions using repeat balloon injury in a normolipemic swine. METHODS AND MATERIALS Eight domestic normolipemic pigs underwent overstretch balloon angioplasty with a 3.5 mm balloon in the LAD and LCX, followed by repeat balloon injury at the same sites 4 weeks after the initial injury. At that time a high activity 192Iridium source was introduced immediately after the angioplasty by random assignment to deliver 14 Gy at 2 mm in eight of the injured coronary arteries (LAD and LCX). One month later the animals were killed and the coronary arteries pressure perfusion fixed. Serial sections were stained with H&E and VVG, then evaluated by histopathologic and morphometric techniques. Maximal intimal thickness (MIT), intimal area (IA), and intimal area corrected for the extent of injury (IA/FL) were measured in the irradiated and control arteries and were compared to control arteries with single injuries from previous studies. RESULTS Repeat balloon injury induced significant additional medial damage, which was associated with marked intimal hyperplasia in a concentric pattern. Intracoronary irradiation significantly decreased the total of neointima area formation (IA 93 + 0.35 mm2 compared to control 1.38 + 0.33 mm2 p < 0.01) and the MIT was also significantly reduced in the irradiated vessels (0.57 + 0.18 mm vs. 0.71 + 0.08 mm, p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Intracoronary irradiation immediately after the second balloon dilatation inhibits the intimal hyperplasia due to that injury. However, there was no effect on the existing neointima from the initial injury.
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- R Waksman
- Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
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Staab ME, Srivatsa SS, Lerman A, Sangiorgi G, Jeong MH, Edwards WD, Holmes DR, Schwartz RS. Arterial remodeling after experimental percutaneous injury is highly dependent on adventitial injury and histopathology. Int J Cardiol 1997; 58:31-40. [PMID: 9021425 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5273(96)02844-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND The extent and nature of unfavorable geometric remodeling, especially related to the adventitia, has not been studied previously. The purpose of this study was to examine two methods of experimental arterial injury, characterize the extent of remodeling, and determine if remodeling is injury-specific. METHODS Two methods for producing coronary stenoses in pigs were used: heat injury using thermal balloon angioplasty (resulting in adventitial fibrosis), and copper stent implantation (resulting in intense inflammation). Histomorphometric parameters included changes in neointimal thickness (delta neointima) from uninjured to injured sections, and differences in area circumscribed by the internal and external elastic laminas (delta internal elastic lamina area and delta external elastic lamina area, respectively). Remodeling was calculated for each lesion as the enlargement of the external elastic lamina area or internal elastic lamina area for incremental neointimal thickening, expressed as the slopes delta external elastic area/delta neointima and delta internal elastic lamina area/delta neointima. RESULTS Remodeling indices for the heat lesions for the heat lesions were negative (delta internal elastic lamina area/delta neointima = 0.15, delta external elastic lamina area/delta neointima = 0.64) and indicated little remodeling in contrast to copper stent injury (delta internal elastic lamina area/delta neointima = 0.95, delta external elastic lamina area/delta neointima = 1.20). CONCLUSIONS Remodeling in fibrotic compared to inflammatory lesions differs markedly, and may explain increased restenosis rates observed in thermal balloon angioplasty in patients. This formulation may be useful to study remodeling and restenosis following interventional technologies.
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- M E Staab
- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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One of the most frustrating aspects of restenosis is that it is the result of advances in medical care (there was no restenosis before the days of balloon angioplasty), yet it seems to be resistant to all that science has to offer. Still we believe there is reason to be optimistic. We are at last beginning to see some promise from clinical trials, and data being generated confirm some of the hypotheses previously generated from animal experiments. Thus the effects seen with the GP IIb/IIIa antibody 7E3 suggest that thrombosis may be as important in its long-term sequelae as it is for acute reocclusion. The jury is still out on whether antiproliferative approaches will be a therapeutic option, but local delivery paradigms using novel formulations delivered by catheter or impregnated in stents may allow the concept to be tested without the risk of systemic toxicity. Plans are also underway for gene therapy trials, although we may have to wait for better vector technology before taking these into the coronary bed. Perhaps we should move away from the "single pill" approach and accept that, like many infections, malignancies, or even heart failure, a multifaceted approach with combination therapy will provide the first glimmer of that brighter tomorrow.
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- J A Keiser
- Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Warner Lambert Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA
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Lamawansa MD, Wysocki SJ, House AK, Norman PE. Morphometric changes seen in balloon-injured porcine iliac arteries: the influence of sympathectomy on intimal hyperplasia and remodelling. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 1997; 13:43-7. [PMID: 9046913 DOI: 10.1016/s1078-5884(97)80049-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of lumbar sympathectomy on intimal thickening and arterial remodelling following balloon de-endothelialisation. DESIGN Experimental animal model with control and treated (sympathectomy) groups. METHODS Unilateral common iliac artery de-endothelialisation was performed in 36 male pigs using a 5F balloon catheter introduced via the profunda femoris artery. Bilateral lumbar sympathectomies were performed in 18 animals. Both iliac arteries were perfusion-fixed and harvested 4 weeks later. Arterial morphometry was assessed using computer image analysis. RESULTS Area measurements are expressed as median (interquartile range) in mm2. Balloon injury resulted in significant intimal thickening but no loss of lumen due to compensatory enlargement of the injured artery. Sympathectomy resulted in significant lumen enlargement (4.8 (2.6-6.3) vs. 1.9 (1.7-2.9)) in balloon-injured arteries. Although intimal thickening was reduced (0.9 (0.6-1.7) vs. 1.5 (0.9-2.0)), this was not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS Sympathectomy increases lumen area 4 weeks after balloon injury to porcine iliac arteries. This effect is due to a combination of reduced arterial wall thickening and increased arterial size.
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- M D Lamawansa
- University Department of Surgery, Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia
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Golomb G, Fishbein I, Banai S, Mishaly D, Moscovitz D, Gertz SD, Gazit A, Poradosu E, Levitzki A. Controlled delivery of a tyrphostin inhibits intimal hyperplasia in a rat carotid artery injury model. Atherosclerosis 1996; 125:171-82. [PMID: 8842349 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9150(96)05868-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We examined the inhibitory effect of AG-17, a potent inhibitor of protein tyrosine kinase activity on injury-induced vascular SMC proliferation by polymeric-based, periadventitial controlled release implant in the balloon catheter carotid injury model in rats. The AG-17 delivery system was formulated from ethylenevinyl acetate copolymer and the release kinetics as well as drug stability were determined. Polymeric matrices containing 2 or 10% AG-17 were implanted perivascularly in rats following balloon catheter injury. Western blot analysis of explanted arterial segments revealed enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation in injured arteries that was essentially reduced to normal levels in treated arteries. The mean neointima to media ratios were significantly reduced in both 2% (0.79 +/- 0.17, n = 9, P < 0.02) and 10% AG-17 (0.59 +/- 0.09, n = 12, P < 0.001) groups in comparison to the control group (1.38 +/- 0.18, n = 16). The mean areas of the media in the control and the 2% AG-17 group did not differ significantly but a significant reduction of the mean area of the media was observed in 10% AG-17 group. Embedding of the unstable tyrphostin compound, AG-17, in a hydrophobic matrix stabilizes the drug both in vitro and in vivo, and allows delivery-rate modulation as well as protracted site-specific therapy. Perivascular controlled release delivery of the tyrphostin AG-17 inhibits neointimal formation in the rat carotid injury model.
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- G Golomb
- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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