Obata JE, Nakamura T, Kitta Y, Saito Y, Sano K, Fujioka D, Kawabata KI, Kugiyama K. In-stent restenosis is inhibited in a bare metal stent implanted distal to a sirolimus-eluting stent to treat a long de novo coronary lesion with small distal vessel diameter.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2013;
82:E777-87. [PMID:
23378231 DOI:
10.1002/ccd.24841]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
This study examined whether sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation exerts an antiproliferative action on a bare metal stent (BMS) placed distally in the same coronary artery.
BACKGROUND
Diffusion of sirolimus into flowing coronary blood may cause accumulation of this drug in the coronary bed beyond the distal edge of an SES.
METHODS
We analyzed data from 115 consecutive patients with ischemic heart disease who were treated with two overlapping stents without a gap in the same coronary artery for a long de novo lesion. The distal stent was a 2.25 mm BMS in all patients, and the proximal stent was an SES in 73 patients (SES-BMS group) and a BMS in 42 patients (BMS-BMS group). Quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) were performed at stent implantation and 8 months later.
RESULTS
Clinical and procedural variables were comparable between the two groups. QCA and IVUS showed that the SES-BMS group had less luminal late loss and a lower percent of in-stent volume obstruction in the distal BMS compared with the BMS-BMS group. Furthermore, compared with the BMS-BMS group, the SES-BMS group had less in-stent restenosis (23.3 vs. 54.8%, P < 0.0005) and target lesion revascularization (21.9 vs. 50.0%, P < 0.005).
CONCLUSIONS
SES implantation just proximal to a BMS inhibits neointimal proliferation in the BMS, when both stents are implanted in the same coronary artery to treat a de novo lesion.
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