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Kwon Y, Stafford PL, Baruch MC, Kim SH, Cho Y, Mazimba S, Gimple LW. Tracking of the beat-to-beat blood pressure changes by the Caretaker physiological monitor against invasive central aortic measurement. Blood Press Monit 2022; 27:70-76. [PMID: 34569988 PMCID: PMC8741634 DOI: 10.1097/mbp.0000000000000568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE There is an unmet need for noninvasive continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring technologies in various clinical settings. Continuous and noninvasive central aortic BP monitoring is technically not feasible currently, but if realized, would provide more accurate and real-time global hemodynamic information than any form of peripheral arterial BP monitoring in an acute care setting. As part of our efforts to develop such, herein we examined the tracking correlation between noninvasively-derived peripheral arterial BP by Caretaker device against invasively measured central aortic BP. METHODS Beat-to-beat BP by Caretaker was recorded simultaneously with central aortic BP measured in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Pearson's correlation was also derived for SBP and DBP. A trend comparison analysis of the beat-to-beat BP change was performed using a four-quadrant plot analysis with the exclusion zones of 0.5 mmHg/s to determine concordance, (i.e. the direction of beat-to-beat changes in SBP and DBP). RESULTS A total of 47 patients were included in the study. A total of 31 369 beats representing an average of 17.3 min of recording were used for analysis. The trend analysis yielded concordances of 84.4 and 83.5% for SBP and DBP, respectively. Respective correlations (Pearson's r) for SBP and DBP trends were 0.87 and 0.86 (P < 0.01). Tracking of beat-to-beat BP by Caretaker showed excellent concordance and correlation in the direction and the degree of BP change with central aortic BP, respectively. CONCLUSION This study supports the satisfactory performance of the Caretaker device in continuous tracking of central aortic BP beat-to-beat BP and provides a basis to develop an algorithm for absolute central aortic BP estimation in the future.
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- Younghoon Kwon
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Rojas ER, Gimple LW, Morsy M, Villines TC. Early Recanalization of a Traumatic Coronary Artery Dissection With Medical Therapy Alone. JACC Case Rep 2020; 2:2299-2303. [PMID: 34317159 PMCID: PMC8304569 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.09.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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We describe a patient who presents with chest discomfort 30 h after having an accident with an all-terrain vehicle. His follow-up coronary computed tomography angiogram revealed early recanalization of his coronary artery with conservative medical therapy. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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Kiehl EL, Amuthan R, Adams MP, Love TE, Enfield KB, Gimple LW, Cantillon DJ, Menon V. Initial arterial pH as a predictor of neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A propensity-adjusted analysis. Resuscitation 2019; 139:76-83. [PMID: 30946922 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2019.03.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Revised: 02/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lower pH after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has been associated with worsening neurologic outcome, with <7.2 identified as an "unfavorable resuscitation feature" in consensus treatment algorithms despite conflicting data. This study aimed to describe the relationship between decremental post-resuscitation pH and neurologic outcomes after OHCA. METHODS Consecutive OHCA patients treated with targeted temperature management (TTM) at multiple US centers from 2008 to 2017 were evaluated. Poor neurologic outcome at hospital discharge was defined as cerebral performance category ≥3. The exposure was initial arterial pH after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) analyzed in decremental 0.05 thresholds. Potential confounders (demographics, history, resuscitation characteristics, initial studies) were defined a priori and controlled for via ATT-weighting on the inverse propensity score plus direct adjustment for the linear propensity score. RESULTS Of 723 patients, 589 (80%) experienced poor neurologic outcome at hospital discharge. After propensity-adjustment with excellent covariate balance, the adjusted odds ratios for poor neurologic outcome by pH threshold were: ≤7.3: 2.0 (1.0-4.0); ≤7.25: 1.9 (1.2-3.1); ≤7.2: 2.1 (1.3-3.3); ≤7.15: 1.9 (1.2-3.1); ≤7.1: 2.4 (1.4-4.1); ≤7.05: 3.1 (1.5-6.3); ≤7.0: 4.5 (1.8-12). CONCLUSIONS No increased hazard of progressively poor neurologic outcomes was observed in resuscitated OHCA patients treated with TTM until the initial post-ROSC arterial pH was at least ≤7.1. This threshold is more acidic than in current guidelines, suggesting the possibility that post-arrest pH may be utilized presently as an inappropriately-pessimistic prognosticator.
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- Erich L Kiehl
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Center for Health Care Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Kiehl EL, Parker AM, Matar RM, Gottbrecht MF, Johansen MC, Adams MP, Griffiths LA, Dunn SP, Bidwell KL, Menon V, Enfield KB, Gimple LW. C-GRApH: A Validated Scoring System for Early Stratification of Neurologic Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated With Targeted Temperature Management. J Am Heart Assoc 2017; 6:JAHA.116.003821. [PMID: 28528323 PMCID: PMC5524053 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Background Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) results in significant morbidity and mortality, primarily from neurologic injury. Predicting neurologic outcome early post‐OHCA remains difficult in patients receiving targeted temperature management. Methods and Results Retrospective analysis was performed on consecutive OHCA patients receiving targeted temperature management (32–34°C) for 24 hours at a tertiary‐care center from 2008 to 2012 (development cohort, n=122). The primary outcome was favorable neurologic outcome at hospital discharge, defined as cerebral performance category 1 to 2 (poor 3–5). Patient demographics, pre‐OHCA diagnoses, and initial laboratory studies post‐resuscitation were compared between favorable and poor neurologic outcomes with multivariable logistic regression used to develop a simple scoring system (C‐GRApH). The C‐GRApH score ranges 0 to 5 using equally weighted variables: (C): coronary artery disease, known pre‐OHCA; (G): glucose ≥200 mg/dL; (R): rhythm of arrest not ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation; (A): age >45; (pH): arterial pH ≤7.0. A validation cohort (n=344) included subsequent patients from the initial site (n=72) and an external quaternary‐care health system (n=272) from 2012 to 2014. The c‐statistic for predicting neurologic outcome was 0.82 (0.74–0.90, P<0.001) in the development cohort and 0.81 (0.76–0.87, P<0.001) in the validation cohort. When subdivided by C‐GRApH score, similar rates of favorable neurologic outcome were seen in both cohorts, 70% each for low (0–1, n=60), 22% versus 19% for medium (2–3, n=307), and 0% versus 2% for high (4–5, n=99) C‐GRApH scores in the development and validation cohorts, respectively. Conclusions C‐GRApH stratifies neurologic outcomes following OHCA in patients receiving targeted temperature management (32–34°C) using objective data available at hospital presentation, identifying patient subsets with disproportionally favorable (C‐GRApH ≤1) and poor (C‐GRApH ≥4) prognoses.
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- Erich L Kiehl
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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BACKGROUND Both intense endurance training and valvular regurgitation place a volume load on the right and left ventricles, potentially leading to dilation, but their effects in combination are not well-known. PURPOSE The purpose of this case series is to describe the combined volume load of intense endurance athletic training and regurgitant valvular disease as well as the challenging assessment of each component's cardiovascular effect. METHODS In this article, the clinical course of three elite endurance athletes with congenital valvular disease were reviewed. RESULTS A swimmer with aortic regurgitation, a cyclist with aortic regurgitation, and a cyclist with pulmonary regurgitation were found to have severe dilation of the associated ventricles despite continuing to train at an elite level without symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Because of the cumulative effects of endurance training and valvular regurgitation, each athlete manifested ventricular dilation out of proportion to their valvular disease and symptoms. Although the effects of congenital valvular disease and athletic remodeling on ventricular dilation have been thoroughly studied individually, their cumulative effect is not well understood. This complicates the assessment of athletes with valvular regurgitation and underscores the need for athlete-specific recommendations for valve replacement.
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- Walter Jordan Hoyt
- 1Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC; 3Department of Cardiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and 4Western Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Grand Junction, CO
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Keeley EC, Moorman JR, Liu L, Gimple LW, Lipson LC, Ragosta M, Taylor AM, Lake DE, Burdick MD, Mehrad B, Strieter RM. Plasma chemokine levels are associated with the presence and extent of angiographic coronary collaterals in chronic ischemic heart disease. PLoS One 2011; 6:e21174. [PMID: 21731663 PMCID: PMC3120847 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2011] [Accepted: 05/21/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In patients with chronic ischemic heart disease (IHD), the presence and extent of spontaneously visible coronary collaterals are powerful determinants of clinical outcome. There is marked heterogeneity in the recruitment of coronary collaterals amongst patients with similar degrees of coronary artery stenoses, but the biological basis of this heterogeneity is not known. Chemokines are potent mediators of vascular remodeling in diverse biological settings. Their role in coronary collateralization has not been investigated. We sought to determine whether plasma levels of angiogenic and angiostatic chemokines are associated with of the presence and extent of coronary collaterals in patients with chronic IHD. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We measured plasma concentrations of angiogenic and angiostatic chemokine ligands in 156 consecutive subjects undergoing coronary angiography with at least one ≥90% coronary stenosis and determined the presence and extent of spontaneously visible coronary collaterals using the Rentrop scoring system. Eighty-eight subjects (56%) had evidence of coronary collaterals. In a multivariable regression model, the concentration of the angiogenic ligands CXCL5, CXCL8 and CXCL12, hyperlipidemia, and an occluded artery were associated with the presence of collaterals; conversely, the concentration of the angiostatic ligand CXCL11, interferon-γ, hypertension and diabetes were associated with the absence of collaterals (ROC area 0.91). When analyzed according to extent of collateralization, higher Rentrop scores were significantly associated with increased concentration of the angiogenic ligand CXCL1 (p<0.0001), and decreased concentrations of angiostatic ligands CXCL9 (p<0.0001), CXCL10 (p = 0.002), and CXCL11 (p = 0.0002), and interferon-γ (p = 0.0004). CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Plasma chemokine concentrations are associated with the presence and extent of spontaneously visible coronary artery collaterals and may be mechanistically involved in their recruitment.
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- Ellen C Keeley
- Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.
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Enkiri SA, Taylor AM, Keeley EC, Lipson LC, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Coronary angiography is a better predictor of mortality than noninvasive testing in patients evaluated for renal transplantation. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2010; 76:795-801. [PMID: 20518007 PMCID: PMC2991378 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to compare whether coronary angiography or noninvasive imaging more accurately identifies coronary artery disease (CAD) and predicts mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) under evaluation for transplantation. BACKGROUND CAD is a leading cause of mortality in patients with ESRD. The optimal method for identifying CAD in ESRD patients evaluated for transplantation remains controversial with a paucity of prognostic data currently available comparing noninvasive methods to coronary angiography. METHODS The study cohort consisted of 57 patients undergoing both coronary angiography and stress perfusion imaging. Severe CAD was defined by angiography as ≥ 70% stenosis, and by noninvasive testing as ischemia in ≥ 1 zone. Follow-up for all cause mortality was 3.3 years. RESULTS On noninvasive imaging, 63% had ischemia. On angiography, 40% had at least one vessel with severe stenoses. Abnormal perfusion was observed in 56% of patients without severe disease angiographically. Noninvasive imaging had poor specificity (24%) and poor positive predictive value (43%) for identifying severe disease. Angiography but not noninvasive imaging predicted survival; 3 year survival was 50% and 73% for patients with and without severe CAD by angiography (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS False positive scintigrams limited noninvasive imaging in patients with ESRD. Angiography was a better predictor of mortality compared with noninvasive testing.
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- Sean A. Enkiri
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Jones DG, Taylor AM, Enkiri SA, Lobo P, Brayman KL, Keeley EC, Lipson LC, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Extent and severity of coronary disease and mortality in patients with end-stage renal failure evaluated for renal transplantation. Am J Transplant 2009. [PMID: 19538490 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2000.02703.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between coronary artery disease (CAD), transplantation status and subsequent mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing evaluation for renal transplantation. Two hundred fifty-three ESRD patients at high risk for CAD underwent coronary angiography as part of a renal transplant evaluation. The cohort was divided into three groups: Group 1 (n = 127) had no vessels with >or=50% stenosis, Group 2 (n = 56) had one vessel with >or=50% stenosis and Group 3 (n = 70) had two or more vessels with >or=50% stenosis. Long-term survival was determined; median follow-up was 3.3 years. The baseline characteristics were similar except for older age and higher proportion of diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and peripheral vascular disease in Groups 2 and 3 patients as compared to Group 1. Survival was worse in Group 3 compared to Group 1 (p < 0.0001). Each of the three subgroups had better survival with renal transplantation than those who did not undergo transplantation (p < 0.0001). Although the degree of CAD is related to subsequent mortality, transplantation is associated with better survival regardless of the extent and severity of CAD. Thus, the presence of CAD should not exclude ESRD patients from consideration for this therapy.
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- D G Jones
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Ragosta M, Bishop AH, Lipson LC, Watson DD, Gimple LW, Sarembock IJ, Powers ER. Comparison between angiography and fractional flow reserve versus single-photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging for determining lesion significance in patients with multivessel coronary disease. Am J Cardiol 2007; 99:896-902. [PMID: 17398179 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.11.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [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] [Received: 08/23/2006] [Revised: 11/07/2006] [Accepted: 11/07/2006] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We hypothesized that myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) would fail to identify all vascular zones with the potential for myocardial ischemia in patients with multivessel coronary disease (MVD). MPI is based on the concept of relative flow reserve. The ability of these techniques to determine the significance of a particular stenosis in the setting of MVD is questionable. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) can determine the significance of individual stenoses. Thirty-six patients with disease involving 88 arteries underwent angiography, FFR, and MPI. FFR was performed using a pressure wire with hyperemia from intracoronary adenosine. Myocardial perfusion images were analyzed quantitatively and segments assigned to a specific coronary artery. The relation between FFR and perfusion was determined for each vascular zone. Of the 88 vessels, the artery was occluded (n=20) or had an abnormal FFR<or=0.75 (n=34) in 54 of 88 (61%). MPI showed no defect in 51 zones (58%). Concordance between angiography, FFR, and MPI was seen in 61 of 88 zones (69%). Discordance was seen in the remaining 27 zones (31%) and was predominantly from the finding of a FFR<0.75 or total occlusion despite no defect on MPI. In conclusion, many patients with MVD show no perfusion defect in zones supplied by arteries with total occlusion or a FFR<0.75. Thus, MPI underestimates ischemic burden and FFR may be better at guiding revascularization decisions than perfusion imaging in patients with MVD.
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- Michael Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
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Fischer JJ, Wang XQ, Samady H, Sarembock IJ, Powers ER, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Outcome of patients with acute coronary syndromes and moderate coronary lesions undergoing deferral of revascularization based on fractional flow reserve assessment. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2006; 68:544-8. [PMID: 16969847 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To determine the outcome of consecutive patients with and without acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in whom revascularization was deferred on the basis of fractional flow reserve (FFR). BACKGROUND FFR < 0.75 correlates with ischemia on noninvasive tests and deferral of treatment on the basis of FFR is associated with low event rates in selected populations. Whether these low event rates apply to patients undergoing assessment of moderate stenoses in association with an ACS is not known and is an important clinical question. METHODS Retrospective analysis and 12 month follow-up of consecutive, moderate (50-70%) de novo coronary lesions assessed with FFR. RESULTS Revascularization was deferred in 120 lesions (111 patients) with FFR > or = 0.75. ACS was present in 35 patients (40 lesions). The clinical, angiographic and coronary hemodynamic characteristics of patients with and without ACS were similar. Among the 35 patients with ACS, there were 3 deaths, 1 MI, and 6 target vessel revascularizations (TVRs) (15% of lesions). Among the 76 patients without ACS, there were 5 deaths, 1 MI, and 7 TVR's (9% of lesions). CONCLUSIONS Deferral of revascularization based on FFR in patients with ACS and moderate coronary stenoses is associated with acceptable and low event rates at 1 year.
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- Joshua J Fischer
- The Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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Chhatriwalla AK, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Fischer JJ, Barringhaus KG, Kramer CM, Samady H. High left ventricular mass index does not limit the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of lesion severity. J Invasive Cardiol 2006; 18:544-9. [PMID: 17090819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To demonstrate that fractional flow reserve (FFR) of vessels in patients with high left ventricular mass index (LVMI) should be similar to that of matched vessels in patients with normal LVMI. BACKGROUND FFR is a physiologic index of coronary lesion severity. It is not known whether FFR remains useful in the setting of increased LVMI, when microvascular abnormalities may be present. METHODS LVMI was calculated in 84 patients using contrast left ventriculography after validation with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Cardiac risk factors, LV ejection fraction (LVEF), minimal lumen diameter (MLD), percent diameter stenosis (%DS), lesion length and FFR were compared in 22 patients with high LVMI to 62 patients with normal LVMI and angiographically-matched vessels. RESULTS LVMI was 126 +/- 21 g/m2 in the high LVMI group and 84 +/- 21 g/m2 in the normal LVMI group. There were no differences in age, LVEF, diabetes, hypertension or dyslipidemia between groups. Angiographic lesion characteristics were well matched in patients with high versus normal LVMI (MLD 1.3 +/- 0.6 mm vs. 1.3 +/- 0.6 mm, %DS 61 +/- 13% vs. 62 +/- 13%, and lesion length 14.2 +/- 7.0 mm vs. 14.3 +/- 7.0 mm; p = NS for all). Importantly, no difference in FFR was observed (0.79 +/- 0.12 vs. 0.78 +/- 0.16; p = NS) between the groups, and LVMI did not correlate with FFR in a multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS FFR of coronary lesions in patients with high LVMI is no different than FFR of angiographically-matched lesions in patients with normal LVMI, suggesting that high LV mass should not limit the utility of FFR as an index of coronary lesion severity.
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- Adnan K Chhatriwalla
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Ragosta M, Dee S, Sarembock IJ, Lipson LC, Gimple LW, Powers ER. Prevalence of unfavorable angiographic characteristics for percutaneous intervention in patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2006; 68:357-62. [PMID: 16892431 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to determine the proportion of patients with left main coronary disease (LMCD) with unfavorable characteristics for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND Published series suggest that LMCD can be treated percutaneously, however, the proportion of patients in whom PCI is an option based on angiographic criteria is unknown. METHODS In 13,228 consecutive coronary angiograms, 476 (3.6%) patients had < or =60% stenosis of the left main. In 232 patients with unprotected LMCD, the clinical characteristics and angiograms were reviewed with six features chosen as "unfavorable" for PCI: (1) Bifurcation LMCD, (2) occlusion of a major coronary, (3) ejection fraction <30%, (4) occlusion of a dominant RCA, (5) left dominant circulation, and (6) coexisting three-vessel disease. Treatment modality and 1 year mortality were determined. RESULTS The mean age was 69 years and 68% were male. Unfavorable characteristics were common with at least one unfavorable characteristic seen in 80%. Bifurcation disease was the most common unfavorable characteristic observed (53%) and coexisting three-vessel disease was seen in 38%. Treatment consisted of CABG in 205 (88%), medical therapy in 24 (10%) and PCI in 3 (1%). Among patients referred for CABG, 1 year survival was 88% with similar rates of survival for those with favorable characteristics (86%) compared to those with at least one unfavorable characteristic (88%). CONCLUSIONS Most patients with LMCD have at least one unfavorable characteristic for PCI suggesting that PCI may be a technically difficult option for most patients with LMCD.
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- Michael Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
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Ragosta M, Samady H, Isaacs RB, Gimple LW, Sarembock IJ, Powers ER. Coronary flow reserve abnormalities in patients with diabetes mellitus who have end-stage renal disease and normal epicardial coronary arteries. Am Heart J 2004; 147:1017-23. [PMID: 15199350 DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.07.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [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: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Diabetic nephropathy is associated with increased cardiovascular events. Coronary atherosclerosis is responsible for many of these events, but other mechanisms such as impaired flow reserve may be involved. The purpose of this study was to define the prevalence and mechanism of abnormal coronary velocity reserve (CVR) in patients with diabetes mellitus who have nephropathy and a normal coronary artery. METHODS Patients undergoing catheterization for clinical purposes were enrolled. CVR was measured with a Doppler ultrasound scanning wire in a normal coronary in 32 patients without diabetes mellitus, 11 patients with diabetes mellitus who did not have renal failure, and 21 patients with diabetes mellitus who had nephropathy. A CVR <2.0 was considered to be abnormal. RESULTS Patients with diabetes mellitus who had renal failure had a higher incidence of hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy. The average peak velocity (APV) at baseline was higher in patients with diabetes mellitus who had renal failure. At peak hyperemia, APV increased in all 3 groups, with no difference between groups. The mean CVR for patients without diabetes was 2.8 +/- 0.8 and was not different from that in patients with diabetes mellitus who did not have renal failure (2.7 +/- 0.7), but was lower than that in patients with diabetes mellitus who had renal failure (1.6 +/- 0.5; P < 0.001). Abnormal CVR was observed in 9% of patients without diabetes mellitus, 18% of patients with diabetes mellitus who did not have renal failure, and 57% of patients with diabetes mellitus who had renal failure, and abnormal CVR was caused by an elevation of baseline APV in 66% of these cases. The baseline heart rate and the presence of diabetes mellitus with renal failure were independent predictors of abnormal CVR by multivariable analysis. CONCLUSIONS Patients with diabetic nephropathy have abnormalities in CVR in the absence of angiographically evident coronary disease.
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- Michael Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Va 22908-0158, USA.
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McClish JC, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Barringhaus KG, Gimple LW, Fischer J, Garnett J, Siadaty M, Sarembock IJ, Samady H. Effect of acute myocardial infarction on the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of the severity of coronary artery narrowing. Am J Cardiol 2004; 93:1102-6. [PMID: 15110200 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [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] [Received: 08/22/2003] [Revised: 01/15/2004] [Accepted: 01/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Fractional flow reserve (FFR) has been shown to be a useful physiologic index of coronary lesion severity in myocardial beds of patients without prior infarction and in those with remote infarction. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) causes myocardial necrosis and microvascular stunning, embolization, and damage. Whether FFR remains a useful index of epicardial flow in the setting of recent myocardial infarction is not established. Cardiac risk factors, serum troponin I, angiographic minimal lumen diameter (MLD), percent diameter stenosis (DS), lesion length, vessel reference diameter, hyperemic central aortic pressure, hyperemic pressure distal to stenosis, and FFR were compared in 43 vessels subtending recent AMI beds to 25 control vessels, matched by lesion length and MLD, in patients without AMI. There were no differences in DS, MLD, lesion length, or reference diameter between AMI and non-AMI groups. Patients with AMI had mean troponin I levels of 91.8 +/- 162 ng/ml. Left ventricular ejection fraction was significantly lower in patients with than without AMI (55 +/- 9% vs 62 +/- 8%, p <0.05). There were no significant differences in hyperemic central aortic pressure (92 +/- 13 vs 99 +/- 15 mm Hg, p = NS), hyperemic pressure distal to the stenosis (62 +/- 17 vs 66 +/- 19 mm Hg, p = NS), or FFR (0.67 +/- 17 vs 0.68 +/- 17, p = NS) between recent AMI and non-AMI control patients. There was a significant correlation between DS and FFR for both patients with (p <0.001) and without (p = 0.003) infarctions. Thus, FFR and the relation between FFR and DS of lesions subtending AMI was not significantly different from FFR of angiographically matched lesions in patients without AMI.
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- J Christopher McClish
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Chhatriwalla AK, Barringhaus KG, Ragosta M, Powers ER, McClish J, Fischer J, Bishop AH, Gimple LW, Saremocck IJ, Choi C, Kramer CM, Samady H. 1120-64 High left ventricular mass does not limit the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of lesion severity. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(04)90315-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Ragosta M, Samady H, Gimple LW, Sarembock IJ, Fenster M, Powers ER. Percutaneous treatment of focal vs. diffuse in-stent restenosis: A prospective randomized comparison of conventional therapies. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2004; 61:344-9. [PMID: 14988893 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Few randomized studies compare outcomes for focal vs. diffuse in-stent restenosis (ISR) using conventional treatments. The purpose of this study was to compare the rates of major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) for focal vs. diffuse ISR using conventional techniques. One hundred thirteen patients with ISR were prospectively classified as focal (< 10 mm) or diffuse (> 10 mm). Focal ISR was randomized to balloon angioplasty (n = 29) or restenting (n = 29) and diffuse ISR randomized to rotational atherectomy (n = 30) or restenting (n = 25). At 9 months, patients with focal ISR had higher survival free of MACEs than patients with diffuse ISR (86% vs. 63%; P < 0.005), with no difference between techniques. Only the presence of diffuse ISR was an independent predictor of MACE at 9 months. Thus, focal ISR has a low rate of MACE compared to diffuse ISR, which carries a high event rate regardless of treatment employed.
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- Michael Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
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McClish JC, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Bishop GA, Fischer J, Barringhaus KG, Garnett J, Gimple LW, Sarembock IJ, Samady H. Recent myocardial infarction does not limit the utility of fractional flow reserve for the physiologic assessment of lesion severity. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(03)80876-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Fischer JJ, Samady H, McPherson JA, Sarembock IJ, Powers ER, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Comparison between visual assessment and quantitative angiography versus fractional flow reserve for native coronary narrowings of moderate severity. Am J Cardiol 2002; 90:210-5. [PMID: 12127605 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(02)02456-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [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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We tested the hypothesis that experienced interventional cardiologists can identify patients with fractional flow reserve (FFR) <0.75 either by visual assessment of the angiogram or by quantitative coronary angiography (QCA). Estimation of the significance of moderate lesions is difficult. FFR can determine the physiologic significance of a stenosis. Data comparing visual assessment and QCA of moderate lesions with FFR are limited. FFR was measured in 83 moderate lesions defined as having a 40% to 70% stenosis by visual inspection. An FFR <0.75 was considered "significant." Lesions were visually assessed by 3 experienced interventional cardiologists and their significance estimated. QCA was performed. Both analyses were compared with FFR. FFR averaged 0.82 +/- 0.11 and was <0.75 in 15 of 83 lesions (18%). The reviewers' classification was concordant with the FFR in about half the lesions. Concordance between reviewers was poor (Spearman's rho = 0.36). Visual assessment resulted in good sensitivity (80%) and negative predictive value (91%), but poor specificity (47%) and positive predictive value (25%) compared with FFR. By QCA, no patient with stenosis <60% or minimal luminal diameter >1.4 mm had FFR <0.75. QCA did not discriminate the significance of lesions outside of these parameters. Thus, neither visual assessment of an angiogram by experienced interventional cardiologists nor QCA can accurately predict the significance of most moderate narrowings.
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- Joshua J Fischer
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Systems, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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McPherson JA, Barringhaus KG, Bishop GG, Sanders JM, Rieger JM, Hesselbacher SE, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Macdonald T, Sullivan G, Linden J, Sarembock IJ. Adenosine A(2A) receptor stimulation reduces inflammation and neointimal growth in a murine carotid ligation model. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2001; 21:791-6. [PMID: 11348876 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.21.5.791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [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: 12/31/2022]
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Endothelial activation and leukocyte recruitment are early events in atherosclerosis and the vascular response to injury. Adenosine has anti-inflammatory effects on leukocytes and endothelial cells mediated through its A(2A) receptor. We tested the hypothesis that A(2A) activation would reduce inflammation and neointimal formation in a murine carotid ligation model. Before injury, mice were randomized to a 7-day subcutaneous infusion of a specific A(2A) receptor agonist (ATL-146e, 0.004 microg/kg per minute), vehicle control, ATL-146e plus ZM241385 (a selective A(2A) antagonist), or ZM241385 alone. Leukocyte recruitment and adhesion molecule expression were assessed at early time points, and the neointimal area was measured at 14 and 28 days after injury. Compared with control mice, ATL-146e-treated mice had significantly less neutrophil and macrophage recruitment and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, and P-selectin expression in the first 7 days after injury. Neointimal area was markedly and persistently reduced by 80% at 14 and 28 days, despite termination of ATL infusion at 7 days. ATL-146e+ZM241385-treated and ZM241385-treated animals had neointimal areas similar to those of control animals, confirming that the observed effects of ATL-146e were mediated specifically by the A(2A) receptor. These data demonstrate that novel stimulation of adenosine A(2A) receptors can inhibit early inflammatory processes that are important in neointimal formation after vascular injury.
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- J A McPherson
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Bishop GG, McPherson JA, Sanders JM, Hesselbacher SE, Feldman MJ, McNamara CA, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Mousa SA, Sarembock IJ. Selective alpha(v)beta(3)-receptor blockade reduces macrophage infiltration and restenosis after balloon angioplasty in the atherosclerotic rabbit. Circulation 2001; 103:1906-11. [PMID: 11294811 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.103.14.1906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND alpha(v)beta(3)-Integrin receptors are upregulated in atherosclerotic arteries and play a key role in smooth muscle cell and possibly inflammatory cell migration. We hypothesized that after balloon angioplasty (BA) of atherosclerotic arteries, selective inhibition of the alpha(v)beta(3)-receptor by XT199, a small-molecule, non-peptide-selective alpha(v)beta(3)-receptor antagonist, would reduce restenosis. METHODS AND RESULTS After induction of focal atherosclerosis, rabbits underwent femoral BA and received XT199 (2.5 mg/kg IV bolus plus 2.5 mg. kg(-1). d(-1) IV; n=19) or vehicle (n=20) for 14 days. At 28 days after BA, the XT199 group had a larger lumen (0.75+/-0.26 versus 0.57+/-0.20 mm(2), P=0.03) and a smaller neointimal area (0.49+/-0.18 versus 0.68+/-0.25 mm(2), P=0.01) than the vehicle group. Angiographic analysis confirmed a 30% to 40% reduction in restenosis. Arteries harvested at 28 days after BA did not show a reduction in intima plus media smooth muscle cell content but did show a 50% reduction in macrophage cell density in the XT199 group (716+/-452 versus 1458+/-989 cells/mm(2), P<0.006). Neovessel density at 28 days was also reduced (23+/-42 versus 58+/-46 vessel cross sections/mm(2), P<0.02). Early after BA (ie, 3 to 7 days), there was a decrease in intracellular adhesion molecule-1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression, indicative of a reduction in vascular cell activation. CONCLUSIONS Selective alpha(v)beta(3)-receptor blockade for 14 days after BA in the focally atherosclerotic rabbit significantly reduced restenosis and limited macrophage infiltration and neovascularization in the vessel wall.
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MESH Headings
- Actins/analysis
- Angioplasty, Balloon
- Animals
- Arterial Occlusive Diseases/pathology
- Arterial Occlusive Diseases/prevention & control
- Arteriosclerosis/pathology
- Arteriosclerosis/therapy
- Cell Adhesion/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured
- Chemokine CCL2/metabolism
- Cholesterol/blood
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Femoral Artery/drug effects
- Femoral Artery/metabolism
- Femoral Artery/pathology
- Imidazoles/pharmacology
- Immunohistochemistry
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1/drug effects
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism
- Macrophages/drug effects
- Macrophages/pathology
- Male
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/cytology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/drug effects
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Rabbits
- Receptors, Vitronectin/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, Vitronectin/metabolism
- Recurrence
- Time Factors
- Tunica Intima/drug effects
- Tunica Intima/metabolism
- Tunica Intima/pathology
- Tunica Media/drug effects
- Tunica Media/metabolism
- Tunica Media/pathology
- Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/drug effects
- Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- G G Bishop
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Ragosta M, Powers ER, Samady H, Gimple LW, Sarembock IJ, Beller GA. Relationship between extent of residual myocardial viability and coronary flow reserve in patients with recent myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2001; 141:456-62. [PMID: 11231445 DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2001.113074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND The presence of viability in an infarct zone implies an intact microvasculature. We hypothesized that coronary flow reserve (CFR), which assesses the microcirculation, would correlate with the extent of viability in infarction zones. METHODS CFR was measured after stenting in 17 patients with single vessel disease >48 hours from infarction. Viability was determined with use of single-photon emission computed tomography sestamibi imaging. RESULTS Sestamibi uptake in the infarct zone correlated with CFR in the infarct artery (r = 0.62, P =.008) and sestamibi uptake in the infarct zone was greater in patients with normal CFR than in patients with abnormal CFR (61.9 +/- 9.1% vs 46.3 +/- 9.6%, P =.004). In addition, CFR was greater in patients with viability compared with patients without viability (2.4 +/- 1.3 vs 1.4 +/- 0.4, P =.015). CONCLUSIONS CFR correlates with the extent of viability after infarction. Preserved CFR in an infarct-related artery implies preserved viability.
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- M Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22098, USA.
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Buckley RS, Kaul S, Jayaweera AR, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Dent JM. Quantification of mitral regurgitation in the cardiac catheterization laboratory with contrast echocardiography. Am Heart J 2000; 139:1109-13. [PMID: 10827395 DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2000.106167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [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: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND There is no method of quantifying the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) from injection of tracer directly into the left ventricular (LV) cavity, a method commonly used in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. METHODS AND RESULTS We used a previously validated mathematical model that derives regurgitant fraction (RF) from the relative tracer washout from the left atrial (LA) and LV cavities. Thirty-nine patients referred for diagnostic cardiac catheterization with clinical evidence of possible MR were included in the study. Five milliliters of a microbubble mixture was power-injected into the LV during simultaneously performed contrast echocardiography. Relative changes in background-subtracted video intensity were measured from the LV and LA, and the resultant model-derived RF was correlated with the severity of MR on cineangiography. The severity of MR ranged from 0 to 4+ on cineangiography with corresponding model-derived RF of 0 to 0.69 on contrast echocardiography. A close linear relation was noted between angiographic severity of MR and model-derived RF on contrast echocardiography (y = 0.1x + 0.03, r = 0.89, P <.001). Contrast echocardiography was more sensitive than cineangiography for detecting mild MR. CONCLUSIONS We describe a new method of measuring the severity of MR in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Apart from being quantitative, this method can be safely used during cardiac catheterization in patients in whom iodinated contrast agents may be potentially harmful.
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- R S Buckley
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Wiegman PJ, Barry WL, McPherson JA, McNamara CA, Gimple LW, Sanders JM, Bishop GG, Powers ER, Ragosta M, Owens GK, Sarembock IJ. All-trans-retinoic acid limits restenosis after balloon angioplasty in the focally atherosclerotic rabbit : a favorable effect on vessel remodeling. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2000; 20:89-95. [PMID: 10634804 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.20.1.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 11/16/2022]
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All-trans-retinoic acid (atRA) has potent in vitro effects on a number of processes involved in vascular injury and repair, such as modulating smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation and inducing SMC differentiation, and may play an important role in the in vivo response to vascular injury. We hypothesized that atRA would limit restenosis after balloon angioplasty through SMC-modulated changes in plaque size and vessel geometry. Balloon angioplasty was performed on rabbits with focal femoral atherosclerosis randomized to treatment with atRA or saline. At 28 days after balloon angioplasty, minimal luminal diameter was significantly larger in the atRA group (1.24+/-0.17 versus 1.12+/-0.22 mm, P=0.02). Histomorphometry confirmed a larger lumen area (0.51+/-0.20 versus 0. 34+/-0.13 mm(2), P=0.004) in the atRA group, with no difference in absolute plaque area. Internal elastic lamina and external elastic lamina areas were significantly larger in the atRA group (0.89+/-0. 27 versus 0.66+/-0.24 mm(2), P=0.001, and 1.29+/-0.38 versus 0. 98+/-0.32 mm(2), P=0.001, respectively). Vessel sections exhibited significantly more alpha-actin and desmin immunostaining (P=0.01) in the atRA-treated group. No differences in early cellular proliferation and collagen content were detected with the use of bromodeoxyuridine. In this atherosclerotic model of vascular injury, atRA limits restenosis after balloon angioplasty by effects secondary to overall vessel segment enlargement at the angioplasty site rather than by effects on plaque size or cellular proliferation. Increased alpha-actin and desmin immunostaining suggest a possible role for phenotypic modulation of SMCs in this favorable remodeling effect.
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- P J Wiegman
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of VirginiaHealth Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Manka DR, Wiegman P, Din S, Sanders JM, Green SA, Gimple LW, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Ley K, Sarembock IJ. Arterial injury increases expression of inflammatory adhesion molecules in the carotid arteries of apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice. J Vasc Res 1999; 36:372-8. [PMID: 10559677 DOI: 10.1159/000025676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Recent studies demonstrate increased cellular adhesion molecule expression by neointimal endothelium overlying primary and restenotic atherosclerotic plaque. In this study, we developed an atherosclerotic mouse model of arterial injury and characterized adhesion molecule expression after injury. Sixteen apolipoprotein-E-(ApoE)-deficient mice fed a Western-type diet for 4 weeks underwent carotid artery wire denudation at week 2. For each segment, the extent of neointima formation and medial thickening, or adhesion molecule expression, were scored separately on a scale from 0 (no plaque/thickening or expression) to 3 (extensive plaque/thickening or expression) using Movat staining (n = 3) or immunohistochemical analysis (n = 13). Histology revealed significant medial thickening (1.8 +/- 0.9 vs. 0.3 +/- 0.5, p < 0. 001) versus controls and pronounced staining for monocytes/macrophages in the wall of injured vessels. Immunohistochemical analysis showed more robust expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) on the luminal surface of injured arteries versus controls (2.2 +/- 0.6 vs. 1.4 +/- 0.7, p < 0.01, and 2.5 +/- 0.5 vs. 1.2 +/- 0.6, p < 0.001, respectively). Injury increased adventitial ICAM-1 expression (2.6 +/- 0.5 vs. 1.6 +/- 0.5, p < 0.002) and medial VCAM-1 expression (2.2 +/- 0.6 vs. 1.2 +/- 0. 7, p < 0.004). Thus, carotid injury results in significant medial thickening and increases adhesion molecule expression beyond that induced in ApoE-deficient mice fed a Western diet alone. The observation of macrophage infiltration into the media at sites of increased ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression suggests that these molecules may mediate monocyte/macrophage trafficking into the wall of injured arteries.
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- D R Manka
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Centers, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Bishop GG, Wiegman P, McNamara C, Din S, Sanders J, Hesselbacher S, Feldman M, McPherson JA, Humphries JE, Hammarskjold ML, Gimple LW, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Dickek D, Owens GK, Sarembock IJ. Local adenovirus-mediated delivery of hirudin in a rabbit arterial injury model. J Vasc Res 1999; 36:343-52; discussion 430-3. [PMID: 10559674 DOI: 10.1159/000025672] [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: 11/19/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Intravascular delivery of an E1/E3 deleted adenovirus encoding the hirudin protein reduces neointimal formation in the rat arterial injury model. Given the interspecies variability in response to adenoviral vectors, we tested this same construct in the hirudin-sensitive cholesterol-fed rabbit arterial balloon injury model. We hypothesized that local delivery of an E1/E3-deleted adenovirus encoding hirudin (Ad-Hir) in addition to early hirudin infusion would limit neointimal formation compared to early hirudin alone. METHODS AND RESULTS Local delivery of Ad-Hir, 2.5 x 10(10) PFU/ml, using a double balloon catheter [n = 6 vessels (v)] produced a 79% reduction in vessel wall thrombin activity at 48 h after balloon angioplasty (BA) compared with vehicle (Veh, n = 6v; p = 0. 05). In chronic experiments, hypercholesterolemic rabbits underwent femoral BA, and received either early hirudin alone (n = 9v) or early hirudin plus locally delivered Ad-Hir (early hirudin + Ad-Hir; n = 9v), an E1/E3-deleted adenovirus encoding beta-galactosidase (early hirudin + AdGal; n = 7v), or Veh (early hirudin + Veh; n = 10v). Early hirudin + Ad-Hir did not limit the arterial response to injury versus the other groups at 4 weeks after BA. Plaque area, cross-sectional luminal area narrowing by plaque, and T cell infiltration were significantly increased in the adenovirus- versus non-adenovirus-treated arteries. Plaque area correlated with T cell density. CONCLUSION Following BA in cholesterol-fed rabbits, local transduction with A-Hir produced a marked reduction in vessel wall-associated thrombin activity. However, this strategy increased rather than decreased the arterial response to BA injury. Our results suggest that the lack of therapeutic effect resulted from adenovirus-stimulated plaque formation, possibly resulting from a T cell-mediated inflammatory response.
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- G G Bishop
- Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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McPherson JA, Robinson PS, Powers ER, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Angiographic findings in patients undergoing catheterization for recurrent symptoms within 30 days of successful coronary intervention. Am J Cardiol 1999; 84:589-92, A8. [PMID: 10482161 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00384-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In 108 consecutive patients without abrupt vessel closure referred for repeat coronary angiography within 30 days of successful coronary intervention, 28 (26%) were found with restenosis at the treated site. None of the 27 patients who underwent stenting were found to have early restenosis; balloon angioplasty without stenting was the only independent predictor of early restenosis in patients with recurrent symptoms within 30 days of intervention.
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- J A McPherson
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Gimple LW, Herrmann HC, Winniford M, Mammen E. Usefulness of subcutaneous low molecular weight heparin (ardeparin) for reduction of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Am J Cardiol 1999; 83:1524-9. [PMID: 10363865 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00141-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 10/18/2022]
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In addition to its anticoagulant effects, heparin is known to have antiproliferative effects on vascular smooth muscle cells. Ardeparin is a partially depolymerized (low molecular weight) heparin that has a longer half-life than unfractionated heparin. Following successful coronary balloon angioplasty, 565 patients were randomized to treatment with twice-daily subcutaneous ardeparin 50 anti-Xa U/kg (low dose) or 100 anti Xa U/kg body weight (high dose), or placebo for 3 months. Follow-up angiography was performed in 415 patients at 4 months, or earlier if clinically indicated. Additionally, patients underwent treadmill exercise electrocardiography at 2 weeks and 4 months. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that 3 months of subcutaneous dosing of ardeparin would reduce angiographic restenosis after coronary balloon angioplasty. Ardeparin had no effect on the incidence of angiographic restenosis (prespecified definition: > or = 50% luminal diameter narrowing plus a loss of 50% of initial gain or absolute decrease of 20% of luminal diameter). Neither the mean luminal diameters nor mean percent diameter stenoses were different among the treatment groups before, after, or 4 months after balloon angioplasty. On exercise electrocardiography at 2 weeks and 4 months, patients in all treatment groups had similar exercise tolerance, incidence of angina, and frequency of ST depression. Thus, ardeparin treatment given subcutaneously for 3 months after successful balloon angioplasty does not reduce either angiographic or clinical measures of restenosis.
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- L W Gimple
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA.
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Ragosta M, Karve M, Brezynski D, Humphries J, Sanders JM, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Powers ER. Effectiveness of heparin in preventing thrombin generation and thrombin activity in patients undergoing coronary intervention. Am Heart J 1999; 137:250-7. [PMID: 9924158 DOI: 10.1053/hj.1999.v137.91541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Thrombus is important in the pathophysiology of several complications of angioplasty, including abrupt closure and restenosis. Levels of prothrombin fragment F1.2 and fibrinopeptide A reflect thrombin generation and activity. The effect of angioplasty on levels of these markers is unclear. METHODS Patients undergoing either balloon angioplasty (n = 30) or directional atherectomy (n = 9) were treated with heparin to maintain an activated clotting time of >300 seconds. Levels of F1.2, fibrinopeptide A, and thrombin-antithrombin complex were measured in the coronary sinus and coronary artery before and after intervention. Angiograms were reviewed for lesion morphologic characteristics and dissection. RESULTS There was no evidence for thrombin generation or increased thrombin activity after angioplasty regardless of lesion morphologic characteristics, dissection, type of intervention, or blood sampling site. In fact, coronary sinus concentrations of F1.2 decreased after intervention (median 0.31 nmol/L; 25th percentile 0.26 nmol/L, 75th percentile 0.37 nmol/L) before intervention to 0.23 nmol/L (25th percentile 0.19 nmol/L, 75th percentile 0.34 nmol/L) after intervention (P =.002). CONCLUSIONS Angioplasty performed in the presence of adequate heparin inhibited thrombin even when there was complex lesion morphology or dissection. These data suggest that heparin provides satisfactory thrombin inhibition during routine angioplasty.
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- M Ragosta
- Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottsville, VA, USA.
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Thome LM, Gimple LW, Bachhuber BG, McNamara CA, Ragosta M, Gertz SD, Powers ER, Owens GK, Humphries JE, Sarembock IJ. Early plus delayed hirudin reduces restenosis in the atherosclerotic rabbit more than early administration alone: potential implications for dosing of antithrombin agents. Circulation 1998; 98:2301-6. [PMID: 9826318 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.98.21.2301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND A 2-hour infusion of r-hirudin at the time of balloon angioplasty limits restenosis in atherosclerotic rabbits. Because thrombin activity in the vessel wall after angioplasty remains high for 48 to 72 hours, we hypothesized that a second infusion of hirudin at 24 hours would reduce restenosis more than early treatment alone. METHODS AND RESULTS Femoral atherosclerosis was induced in 35 rabbits by air desiccation injury and a high-cholesterol diet. At the time of angioplasty, rabbits were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 groups: controls: heparin bolus, saline infusion at 24 hours; early hirudin: hirudin bolus+2 hours' infusion, saline infusion at 24 hours; delayed hirudin: heparin bolus, hirudin infusion+/-bolus at 24 hours; and early+delayed hirudin: hirudin bolus+2 hours' infusion, hirudin infusion+/-bolus at 24 hours. Rabbits were euthanized after 28 days. The early+delayed hirudin treatment group had less loss of minimal lumen diameter by angiography at 28 days. By histomorphometry, cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque was least in the early+delayed treatment group compared with controls (P=0.0001), early hirudin (P=0.01), or delayed hirudin (P=0.001). The early+delayed hirudin group also had a significant reduction in absolute plaque area and an improvement in lumen area compared with the other groups. No differences were observed between treatment groups with respect to the cross-sectional area encompassed by the internal or external elastic laminae. CONCLUSIONS Combined early+delayed administration of hirudin significantly reduces angiographic restenosis and cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque compared with early or late treatment alone. These results suggest that restenosis after balloon angioplasty is markedly influenced by thrombin-mediated events not only occurring early but also extending beyond the first 24 hours in this model.
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- L M Thome
- Cardiovascular Division and the Department of Molecular Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Gertz SD, Fallon JT, Gallo R, Taubman MB, Banai S, Barry WL, Gimple LW, Nemerson Y, Thiruvikraman S, Naidu SS, Chesebro JH, Fuster V, Sarembock IJ, Badimon JJ. Hirudin reduces tissue factor expression in neointima after balloon injury in rabbit femoral and porcine coronary arteries. Circulation 1998; 98:580-7. [PMID: 9714116 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.98.6.580] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tissue factor (TF) is a transmembrane glycoprotein that, after binding to factor VII/VIIa, initiates the extrinsic coagulation pathway, resulting in thrombin generation and its sequelae. Thrombin has been shown to induce TF mRNA in endothelium, monocytes, and smooth muscle cells, further perpetuating the thrombogenic cycle. This study was designed to determine the effect of specific inhibition of thrombin by recombinant hirudin (r-hirudin) on TF distribution after balloon angioplasty in the cholesterol-fed rabbit femoral artery and porcine coronary artery models. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-five femoral arteries from 32 cholesterol-fed New Zealand White rabbits and 84 coronary arteries from 55 Yorkshire-Albino swine were studied by use of a recently developed in situ method of TF localization based on digoxigenin labeling of recombinant factor VIIa (Dig-VIIa), with correlative studies of TF immunoreactivity by use of anti-rabbit (AP-1) or anti-human (sTF) antibodies. At sites of balloon angioplasty in rabbit femoral or pig coronary arteries (double or single injury), TF-antibody and Dig-VIIa staining were noted in association with endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and foam cells and within the fibrous tissue matrix primarily of the adventitia and neointima. Staining was significantly greater after balloon angioplasty than in vessels that had not undergone angioplasty but was similar after single and double balloon injury. Animals treated with r-hirudin (rabbits, 1 mg/kg bolus plus 2-hour infusion; pigs, 1 mg/kg bolus plus 0.7 mg x kg(-1) x d(-1) infusion for 14 days with implantable pump) had diminished TF-antibody and Dig-VIIa staining 28 days after balloon angioplasty compared with controls (bolus heparin only). This effect was more prominent on the neointima and was more striking in the porcine than the rabbit model. CONCLUSIONS TF expression, persistent 1 month after balloon angioplasty in rabbit femoral arteries and porcine coronary arteries, is attenuated by specific thrombin inhibition with hirudin. These results suggest that thrombin inhibition, in addition to its effect on acute thrombus formation and its effect on luminal narrowing by plaque in experimental animals, may result in a prolonged reduction in thrombogenicity of the restenotic plaque through this effect on TF expression.
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- S D Gertz
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Marso SP, Gimple LW, Philbrick JT, DiMarco JP. Effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions to prevent recurrent coronary events in patients on chronic hemodialysis. Am J Cardiol 1998; 82:378-80. [PMID: 9708670 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00347-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Patients on chronic hemodialysis undergoing percutaneous coronary revascularization have similar rates of procedural success and in-hospital event rates when compared with a matched cohort. However, patients on chronic hemodialysis have a marked increase in 36-month target vessel revascularization, myocardial infarction, and death rates.
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- S P Marso
- Cardiovascular Division and the Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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Gertz SD, Barry WL, Gimple LW, Banai S, Perez LS, McNamara CA, Powers ER, Ragosta M, Owens GK, Roberts WC, Sarembock IJ. Predictors of luminal narrowing by neointima after angioplasty in atherosclerotic rabbits. Cardiovasc Res 1997; 36:396-407. [PMID: 9534861 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6363(97)00168-5] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to identify the predictors of cross-sectional area narrowing by neointima (%CSAN-N) after balloon angioplasty (BA) in the cholesterol fed rabbit model. METHODS Angiographic, histomorphometric, and immunohistochemical data were analyzed from 91 femoral arteries of New Zealand white rabbits. Focal atherosclerosis was induced by air desiccation of the endothelium followed by a 2% cholesterol diet for 28 days. The rabbits received heparin (150 U/kg) at the time of BA (2.5 mm; three, 60-second, 10-atm inflations). Arteries were perfusion-fixed and excised 7 (n = 16), 14 (n = 11), 21 (n = 9), or 28 (n = 20) days after BA. Non-angioplastied arteries were de-endothelialized (cholesterol-fed [n = 12] or normal diet [n = 8]), non-injured but cholesterol-fed (n = 7), or normal (n = 8). RESULTS Univariate regression across all groups showed that the absolute area of the lumen by histomorphometry (LA) correlated significantly with the area bounded by the external elastic lamina (EEL) (vessel size), but no correlation was found with the absolute area of neointima or media, the percentage disruption of the internal elastic lamina (IEL), or the percentage of neointima and media occupied by foam cells. However, %CSAN-N correlated significantly with the area bounded by the EEL, significantly with the absolute neointimal area, and negatively with the absolute LA (p < 0.0001). Significant correlations were also found between %CSAN-N and the % IEL disrupted, the area of neointima and media occupied by RAM-11 + foam cells, and the loss of alpha-actin positivity in the media (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS These studies show that neointimal formation contributes significantly to luminal narrowing 1 month after angioplasty in this model, that the degree of vascular injury and the extent of foam cell accumulation in the neointima and media are significant independent predictors of neointimal formation, and that the area of the neointima, and the percent narrowing by neointima, are important predictors of remodeling itself (EEL area). These predictors were not identifiable when the analysis was focused on the determinants of absolute luminal area alone.
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- S D Gertz
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Vernon S, Kaul S, Powers ER, Camarano G, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and previous myocardial infarction: comparison of myocardial contrast echocardiography and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. Am Heart J 1997; 134:835-40. [PMID: 9398095 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-8703(97)80006-3] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The aim of this study was to compare perfusion patterns on myocardial contrast echocardiography with those on myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the assessment of myocardial viability in patients with previous myocardial infarction. Accordingly, perfusion scores with the two techniques were compared in 91 ventricular regions in 21 patients with previous (>6 weeks old) myocardial infarction. Complete concordance between the two techniques was found in 63 (69%) regions; 25 (27%) regions were discordant by only 1 grade, and complete discordance (2 grades) was found in only 3 (3%) regions. A kappa statistic of 0.65 indicated good concordance between the two techniques. Although the scores on both techniques demonstrated a relation with the wall motion score, the correlation between the myocardial contrast echocardiography and wall motion scores was closer (r = -0.63 vs r = -0.50, p = 0.05). It is concluded that myocardial contrast echocardiography provides similar information regarding myocardial viability as myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in patients with coronary artery disease and previous myocardial infarction.
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- S Vernon
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Pagley PR, Beller GA, Watson DD, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Improved outcome after coronary bypass surgery in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and residual myocardial viability. Circulation 1997; 96:793-800. [PMID: 9264484 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.96.3.793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [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: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although residual myocardial viability in patients with coronary artery disease and extensive regional asynergy is associated with improved ventricular function after coronary bypass surgery, the relationship between viability and clinical outcome after surgery is unclear. We hypothesized that patients with poor ventricular function and predominantly viable myocardium have a better outcome after bypass surgery compared with those with less viability. METHODS AND RESULTS Seventy patients with multivessel coronary artery disease and left ventricular ejection fractions < 40% who underwent preoperative quantitative 201Tl scintigraphy before coronary bypass surgery were analyzed retrospectively. 201Tl scintigrams were reviewed blindly, and each segment was assigned a score based on defect magnitude. Segmental viability scores were summed and divided by the number of segments visualized to determine a viability index. The viability index was significantly related to 3-year survival free of cardiac event (cardiac death or heart transplant) after bypass surgery (P=.011) and was independent of age, ejection fraction, and number of diseased coronary vessels. Patients with greater viability (group 1; viability index > 0.67; n=33) were similar to patients with less viability (group 2; viability index < or = 0.67; n=37) with respect to age, comorbidities, and extent of coronary artery disease. There were 6 cardiac deaths and no heart transplants in group 1 patients and 15 cardiac deaths and two transplants in group 2 patients. Survival free of cardiac death or transplantation was significantly better in group 1 patients on Kaplan-Meier analysis (P=.018). CONCLUSIONS We conclude that resting 201Tl scintigraphy may be useful in preoperative risk stratification for identification of patients more likely to benefit from surgical revascularization.
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- P R Pagley
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Barry WL, Wiegman PJ, Gimple LW, Gertz SD, Powers ER, Owens GK, Sarembock IJ. A new single-injury model of balloon angioplasty in cholesterol-fed rabbits: beneficial effect of hirudin and comparison with double-injury model. J Transl Med 1997; 77:109-16. [PMID: 9251684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Air desiccation endothelial injury followed by cholesterol feeding is known to induce focal femoral atherosclerosis in rabbits. We previously demonstrated the effectiveness of hirudin in limiting restenosis after balloon angioplasty (BA) in this double instrumentation injury (DI) model. In the present study, we sought to determine whether BA without prior air desiccation endothelial injury (single instrumentation injury (SI)) would lead to similar femoral lesions, and whether the response to this injury might also be limited by hirudin. Accordingly, 38 femoral arteries of cholesterol-fed rabbits underwent BA with (n = 18, DI group) or without (n = 20, SI group) prior air desiccation endothelial injury. Animals were killed 24 hours or 28 days after BA. Twenty-four hours after BA, the SI group (n = 10) had a significantly smaller percentage of cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque than the DI group (n = 8) (0% versus 42% +/- 9%, p = 0.008). However, 28 days after BA, the percentages of cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque in the SI (n = 10) and DI (n = 10) groups were similar (59% +/- 6% versus 68% +/- 1%, p = NS). The percentages of intima (16% +/- 3% versus 16% +/- 3%, p = NS) and media occupied by foam cells were also similar in the two groups. To test whether hirudin administration would limit arterial narrowing after injury in the SI model, we randomly assigned cholesterol-fed rabbits that had not undergone air desiccation injury to either bolus hirudin followed by repeat dosing 24 hours after BA or bolus heparin (150 U/kg) at the time of BA. The hirudin-treated group showed significantly less angiographic and histologic restenosis 28 days after BA, despite no difference in early (0 to 72 hours) cumulative cellular proliferation between the two groups. Thus, in the cholesterol-fed rabbit, plaque formation and foam cell accumulation are similar after BA of a non-air-desiccated (SI) or focally atherosclerotic (DI) artery. Thrombin inhibition with hirudin limits arterial narrowing after SI, further emphasizing the role of thrombin in neointimal growth after injury.
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- W L Barry
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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Gertz SD, Banai S, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Sarembock IJ, Roberts WC. Remodeling rather than neointimal formation? Circulation 1997; 95:539-41. [PMID: 9008481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Bachhuber BG, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Owens GK. alpha-Thrombin induces transforming growth factor-beta1 mRNA and protein in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells via a proteolytically activated receptor. J Vasc Res 1997; 34:41-8. [PMID: 9075824 DOI: 10.1159/000159200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The potent growth factors and chemoattractants alpha-thrombin and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) have both been identified at sites of arterial injury, however the interaction between these two factors has not been defined. By Northern hybridization analyses, accumulation of both a 1.9- and a 2.4-kb transcript of TGF-beta1 were detected and occurred in a time- and dose-dependent fashion following alpha-thrombin stimulation of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). This induction of TGF-beta1 mRNA required the proteolytic activity of thrombin and was mimicked by a thrombin-receptor-(TR)-activating peptide or TRAP (SFFLRNP). Increases in alpha-thrombin-induced TGF-beta1 message expression were insensitive to cycloheximide, but sensitive to actinomycin D. Furthermore, the induction of TGF-beta1 mRNA expression correlated with the production of latent TGF-beta1 protein in alpha-thrombin-conditioned media. In summary, alpha-thrombin stimulation of VSMC induces transcriptional activation of the TGF-beta1 gene through proteolytic activation of the cloned seven-transmembrane TR resulting in the formation of latent TGF-beta1 protein. These results demonstrate a potential mechanism whereby alpha-thrombin may modulate the vascular response to injury through TGF-beta1-dependent mechanisms.
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- B G Bachhuber
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22906-0011, USA
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Vernon SM, Camarano G, Kaul S, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Ragosta M. Myocardial contrast echocardiography demonstrates that collateral flow can preserve myocardial function beyond a chronically occluded coronary artery. Am J Cardiol 1996; 78:958-60. [PMID: 8888677 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00478-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 02/02/2023]
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Myocardial contrast echocardiography, unlike coronary angiography, can define collateral perfusion. This study shows that collateral blood flow can preserve myocardial function beyond a chronically occluded coronary artery.
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- S M Vernon
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22903, USA
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Ismail S, Jayaweera AR, Camarano G, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Kaul S. Relation between air-filled albumin microbubble and red blood cell rheology in the human myocardium. Influence of echocardiographic systems and chest wall attenuation. Circulation 1996; 94:445-51. [PMID: 8759087 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.94.3.445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND We have previously shown that the intravascular rheology of sonicated air-filled albumin microbubbles is similar to that of red blood cells (RBCs) and that their myocardial transit rate is also similar to that of RBCs in the beating canine heart. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that the myocardial transit rates of these microbubbles reflect those of RBCs in humans at different coronary flow rates. METHODS AND RESULTS RBC and microbubble transit rates were measured in 17 patients undergoing coronary angiography: in 8, measurements were made only at rest, whereas in 9, they were performed both at rest and during a pacing-induced increase in coronary blood flow. A gamma-variate function was used to derive mean RBC and microbubble transit rates from the time-activity and time-intensity plots after the left main injection of RBCs and microbubbles, respectively. There was linear correlation between the myocardial transit rates with both tracers with the slope of the correlation determined by the specific echocardiographic system that was used. Microbubble transit rate consistently overestimated RBC transit rate due to artificial narrowing of the time-intensity curves caused by chest wall attenuation of the echocardiographic signal, which was confirmed through in vitro experiments. CONCLUSIONS There is close correlation between air-filled albumin microbubbles and RBC rheology in the human myocardium. The use of these microbubbles in the cardiac catheterization laboratory could, therefore, provide further insights into myocardial blood flow/myocardial blood volume relations in humans.
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- S Ismail
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 2908, USA
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Sarembock IJ, Gertz SD, Thome LM, McCoy KW, Ragosta M, Powers ER, Maraganore JM, Gimple LW. Effectiveness of hirulog in reducing restenosis after balloon angioplasty of atherosclerotic femoral arteries in rabbits. J Vasc Res 1996; 33:308-14. [PMID: 8695755 DOI: 10.1159/000159158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 02/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Thrombin may play an important role in restenosis after balloon angioplasty (BA). Angiographic and pathologic restenosis have been shown to be reduced after BA in an atherosclerotic rabbit model using recombinant desulfatohirudin, a selective and direct thrombin inhibitor. We hypothesized that potent and specific thrombin inhibition with the synthetic peptide hirulog given intravenously at the time of angioplasty would reduce restenosis in rabbits, confirming a specific role of thrombin in restenosis. METHODS AND RESULTS Focal femoral atherosclerosis was induced in 27 rabbits by air desiccation endothelial injury followed by a 2% cholesterol diet for 1 month. Rabbits received either heparin (150 units/kg bolus, n = 14) or hirulog (5 mg/kg bolus followed by 5 mg/kg/h for 2 h, n = 13) at the time of BA (2.5-mm balloon with three 60-second, 10-atm inflations 60 s apart). Angiograms performed before and after BA and before sacrifice were analyzed quantitatively. Rabbits were sacrificed 28 days after BA for quantitative histopathologic analysis. Minimum luminal diameter (mm) did not differ between treatment groups before (1.1 +/- 0.2 vs. 1.2 +/- 0.1 mm) or after (1.5 +/- 0.2 vs. 1.6 +/- 0.1) BA in arteries from heparin-versus hirulog-treated rabbits, respectively. At 28 days, however, minimum luminal diameter was significantly less (1.0 +/- 0.4 vs. 1.5 +/- 0.2, p = 0.0001) and percent stenosis was greater (0.46 +/- 0.25 vs. 0.22 +/- 0.08, p = 0.0002) in arteries from heparin- versus hirulog-treated rabbits, respectively. Similarly, quantitative histopathology showed less cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque in the hirulog group (56 +/- 24 vs. 42 +/- 21%, p = 0.04). CONCLUSION A 2-hour infusion of hirulog at the time of angioplasty improved late angiographic luminal dimensions and reduced cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque in rabbits compared with heparin controls. Together with previous studies, this confirms a specific role for thrombin in restenosis after angioplasty.
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- I J Sarembock
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Barry WL, Gimple LW, Humphries JE, Powers ER, McCoy KW, Sanders JM, Owens GK, Sarembock IJ. Arterial thrombin activity after angioplasty in an atherosclerotic rabbit model: time course and effect of hirudin. Circulation 1996; 94:88-93. [PMID: 8964123 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.94.1.88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND A 2-hour infusion of the direct thrombin inhibitor hirudin at the time of balloon angioplasty limits restenosis in the focally atherosclerotic rabbit. Although short-term administration of hirudin may have a prolonged biological effect, the effect of hirudin on vessel thrombin activity has not been previously studied in an animal model of angioplasty. We hypothesized that a short intravenous infusion of hirudin would result in prolonged inhibition of arterial wall-associated thrombin activity (ATA) after angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixty-one rabbits received recombinant hirudin (r-hirudin)(1 mg/kg bolus plus 1 mg x kg(-1) x h(-1)x2hours) or bolus heparin (controls, 150 U/kg) intravenously at the time of femoral balloon angioplasty. ATA was measured through exposure of arterial segments ex vivo to fibrinogen and conducting an assay for fibrinopeptide A (FPA). ATA was low in nonballooned, atherosclerotic vessels (FPA=0.5+/-0.3 ng x mL(-1) x mg(-1)) but increased significantly at 24 hours after angioplasty in the heparin group (3.7+/-0.9 ng x mL(-1) x mg(-1), P<.01 versus baseline, n=9) but not in the hirudin group (FPA = 1.4+/-0.3; P=NS versus baseline, P<.02 versus heparin controls, n=8). The time course of ATA after angioplasty was assessed in 44 rabbits. Thrombin activity peaked at 48 hours and declined to baseline at 72 hours and 7 days. FPA values between the heparin and r-hirudin groups were similar at these later time points. CONCLUSIONS A 2-hour intravenous infusion of r-hirudin suppressed ATA measured 24 hours after angioplasty in the focally atherosclerotic rabbit. This prolonged biological effect may account, in part, for the reduction in restenosis seen in this model.
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- W L Barry
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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McNamara CA, Sarembock IJ, Bachhuber BG, Stouffer GA, Ragosta M, Barry W, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Owens GK. Thrombin and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation: implications for atherosclerosis and restenosis. Semin Thromb Hemost 1996; 22:139-44. [PMID: 8807710 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-999001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [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: 02/02/2023]
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Despite long-standing knowledge about the relationship between thrombosis and atherosclerosis, the specific role of thrombin in modulating atherosclerosis and the response to vascular injury is not well understood. Thrombin receptor stimulation in vitro signals many cellular events that are associated with the response to vascular injury (atherosclerosis) in vivo. Proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) is an important component of the response to vascular injury. We have previously shown that human alpha-thrombin and the 14-amino acid human thrombin receptor-activating peptide (huTRAP-14) stimulate proliferation of cultured rat aortic SMCs. However, thrombin-induced SMC proliferation demonstrates delayed kinetics relative to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-BB, another potent SMC mitogen). Several mechanisms may be responsible for these delayed kinetics in vitro, including production of necessary secondary growth factors and thrombin-induced upregulation of its receptor. In vivo studies have demonstrated that thrombin inhibition limits the response to vascular injury in a hypercholesterolemic rabbit model of focal femoral atherosclerosis. However, this effect does not appear to be mediated by effects on early SMC proliferation. In this discussion, we will address the mechanisms of thrombin-induced SMC proliferation in vitro and apply this knowledge to our understanding of the role of thrombin inhibition in limiting the response to vascular injury in vivo.
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- C A McNamara
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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- A S Zacharias
- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Ragosta M, Barry WL, Gimple LW, Gertz SD, McCoy KW, Stouffer GA, McNamara CA, Powers ER, Owens GK, Sarembock IJ. Effect of thrombin inhibition with desulfatohirudin on early kinetics of cellular proliferation after balloon angioplasty in atherosclerotic rabbits. Circulation 1996; 93:1194-200. [PMID: 8653841 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.93.6.1194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Thrombin may have a pivotal role in restenosis after angioplasty. Hirudin, a potent thrombin inhibitor, reduces luminal narrowing by plaque after angioplasty in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis. Because cellular proliferation is believed to be an important mechanism for restenosis and thrombin has been shown to be a potent smooth muscle cell mitogen in vitro, we hypothesized that the mechanism of the effect of hirudin on limiting luminal narrowing by plaque occurs via inhibition of cellular proliferation. METHODS AND RESULTS Femoral atherosclerosis was induced in 108 rabbits, and balloon angioplasty was performed. At angioplasty, group 1 rabbits (n=38) were treated with a 2-hour infusion of hirudin, and group 2 rabbits (n=41) were treated with heparin. Group 3 rabbits (n=29) were treated with hirudin (n=15) or heparin (n=14) and killed at 7 or 28 days to determine cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque and cellular proliferation with the use of bromodeoxyuridine labeling. At 29, 71, or 167 hours after angioplasty, group 1 and 2 rabbits were injected with 3H-thymidine and killed 1 hour later, and labeling indexes were determined. A significant increase in the index of 3H-thymidine-labeled nuclei was observed in the intima of "ballooned" arteries compared with "nonballooned" atherosclerotic arteries at both 30 hours (0.06+/-0.05 versus 0.01+/-0.01, P<.01) and 72 hours (0.10+/-0.06 versus 0.004+/-0.004, P<.01). By 7 days, the index of labeled cells was similar to baseline (0.04+/-0.03 versus 0.01+/-0.01, P=.12). Hirudin had no effect on the 3H-thymidine labeling indexes at any of the time points studied despite the fact that hirudin treatment in group 3 rabbits resulted in less cross-sectional area narrowing by plaque at both 7 and 28 days after angioplasty (41+/-16 versus 24+/-12 at 7 days and 60+/-21 versus 44+/-17 at 28 days, heparin versus hirudin; P<.03). CONCLUSIONS Balloon angioplasty resulted in a marked increase in cellular proliferation that peaked at 72 hours. A 2-hour infusion of hirudin failed to reduce early 3H-thymidine labeling, suggesting that inhibition of cell proliferation within the first 7 days after angioplasty is not the predominant mechanism by which hirudin exerts its effect on limiting luminal narrowing by plaque 28 days after balloon angioplasty in this animal model.
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- M Ragosta
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Pagley PR, Beller GA, Watson DD, Gimple LW, Ragosta M. Long-term outcome after bypass surgery is better in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy who have viability. J Am Coll Cardiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(96)82093-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Bachhuber BG, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, McNamara CA, Owens GK. Thrombin-induced mitogenesis in cultured aortic smooth muscle cells requires prolonged thrombin exposure. Am J Physiol 1995; 268:C1141-7. [PMID: 7762606 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1995.268.5.c1141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Thrombin has been implicated in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation after vessel injury. Its proliferative effects, which are mediated via proteolytic activation of a receptor similar or identical to the cloned thrombin receptor (TR), have markedly delayed kinetics. The present study demonstrates that, despite rapid thrombin receptor activation and similar time to S phase entry compared with classic polypeptide growth factors, prolonged thrombin exposure is required to promote maximal VSMC mitogenesis. Flow cytometric analysis of thrombin-stimulated cells revealed that thrombin induced a progressive increase in the growth fraction over 3 days in culture, an effect that was blocked by hirudin even late after thrombin addition. Northern blot hybridization after thrombin stimulation demonstrated that thrombin upregulates TR mRNA expression within 6 h. These findings indicate that VSMC proliferate in response to prolonged thrombin exposure and suggest that the mitogenic delay may involve not only the thrombin-dependent synthesis and activation of newly made TR but also the progressive thrombin-dependent recruitment of cells into the growth fraction.
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- B G Bachhuber
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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McNamara CA, Sarembock IJ, Gimple LW, Fenton JW, Owens GK. Human thrombin receptor-activating peptide-induced proliferation of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells exhibits species specificity. Drug Dev Res 1995. [DOI: 10.1002/ddr.430350103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Desmarais RL, Sarembock IJ, Ayers CR, Vernon SM, Powers ER, Gimple LW. Elevated serum lipoprotein(a) is a risk factor for clinical recurrence after coronary balloon angioplasty. Circulation 1995; 91:1403-9. [PMID: 7867180 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.91.5.1403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Elevated lipoprotein (Lp) (a) concentrations are associated with coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. Lp(a) is structurally related to proteins involved in lipid transport, fibrinolysis, coagulation, and cellular mitogenesis and is known to have important physiological interactions with the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems. Because these processes may be important to arterial healing after balloon injury, we hypothesized that elevated Lp(a) concentrations may be associated with recurrence of symptoms and restenosis after balloon angioplasty. METHODS AND RESULTS We assessed 240 consecutive patients undergoing coronary balloon angioplasty with measurements of Lp(a), total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein A-I, and apolipoprotein B-100 concentrations from fresh specimens. Patients were evaluated 4 to 6 months after angioplasty for clinical recurrence by repeat angiography if angina had returned or by maximal exercise treadmill testing with thallium imaging if patients remained asymptomatic. Ninety-seven patients (40%) had clinical recurrence; 143 (60%) did not. Patients with recurrence had significantly greater Lp(a) concentrations compared with those without (median, 29 versus 14; P < .0001). Each patient quintile stratified by increasing Lp(a) concentrations had incrementally greater recurrence rates ranging from 27% (lowest quintile) to 60% (highest quintile). By multivariate logistic regression analysis, Lp(a) concentration was the only predictor of recurrence (P < .0001). A subset of frozen, stored serum samples showed a significant decrease in measured Lp(a) concentration over time (mean, 605 days; P < .01). CONCLUSIONS An elevated Lp(a) concentration was a risk factor for clinical recurrence after percutaneous transluminal balloon coronary angioplasty. Other lipid levels or clinical characteristics were not significantly associated with recurrence. When serum was frozen and stored for a prolonged period, Lp(a) concentration decreased over time.
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- R L Desmarais
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908
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Camarano G, Ragosta M, Gimple LW, Powers ER, Kaul S. Identification of viable myocardium with contrast echocardiography in patients with poor left ventricular systolic function caused by recent or remote myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1995; 75:215-9. [PMID: 7832125 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(95)80022-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 01/27/2023]
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We hypothesized that viable myocardium can be identified in patients with poor left ventricular (LV) systolic function caused by recent or prior infarction using myocardial contrast echocardiography. Accordingly, 39 patients with reduced LV ejection fraction (range 0.10 to 0.40) and recent (n = 30) or remote (n = 9) myocardial infarction were studied. Echocardiography was performed at baseline and at 1 month to assess regional function (1 = normal, 5 = dyskinesia) in 12 segments/patient; the segments were also scored for contrast effect (1 = homogenous, 0.5 = partial, 0 = none) during contrast echocardiography performed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Four patients had unsuccessful angioplasty of occluded arteries and were treated medically, 9 were treated medically because of noncritical coronary stenoses (< 80%), and 26 underwent revascularization (16 angioplasty and 10 bypass operation). Twelve segments could not be visualized (2 each in 6 patients), and 30 segments continued to be subserved by totally occluded arteries because of unsuccessful angioplasty in 4 patients. Of the remaining 426 segments, 186 (44%) demonstrated baseline wall motion scores of > or = 3. The best correlate of 1-month wall motion score in these segments was the contrast score (p = -0.62), with better 1-month function noted in segments with more contrast. The overall perfusion status of LV myocardium also correlated (p = -0.59) with global LV systolic function at 1 month. We conclude that myocardial contrast echocardiography can be used during cardiac catheterization to define myocardial segments that are viable in patients with poor LV systolic function caused by recent or remote myocardial infarction.
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- G Camarano
- Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville
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Thome LM, Gertz SD, Gimple LW, McCoy KW, Powers ER, Maraganore JM, Sarembock IJ. 903-9 Effectiveness of Recombinant Hirulog ® in Reducing Restenosis After Balloon Angioplasty in the Atherosclerotic Rabbit. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(95)91664-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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