Utilização do ultra-som intracoronário com Histologia Virtual® na identificação de lesões propensas à reestenose após o implante de stents / Application of Virtual Histology®-intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS) to identify restenosis-prone lesions after baremetal and sirolimus-eluting stents

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

13/07/2011

RESUMO

To the present, little is known about the correlation between modifications in plaque composition at stent edges and the changes in vessel geometry. This study sought to evaluate, by serial grey-scale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Virtual Histology(TM), the modifications in plaque composition at the edges of drug-eluting and bare-metal stents and the correlation of these findings with changes in the measuremntes of vessel, lumen and plaque area at those segments. Single-center, prospective and randomized (1:1) evaluation of 40 patients with acute coronary syndrome treated with bare-metal (Driver(TM), n=20 patients) or drug-eluting stents (Cypher(TM), n=20 patients). Following stent deployment, all individuals underwent gray scale IVUS and Virtual Histology(TM) evaluation, which were repeated at nine months. Primary endpoint included the modification in vessel, lumen and plaque area and in the composition of the plaque in the mean time between the baseline and follow-up procedure. Additionally, we tried to determine a correlation between plaque composition variation and changes in vessel geometry. At the proximal edge of both drug-eluting and bare-metal stents there was a trend to positive vessel remodeling which compensated the modest increase in plaque area. At the distal edge, patients treated with drug-eluting stents had less plaque growth resulting in a larger lumen area at follow-up. By Virtual Histology, there was a marked reduction in the % of fibrotic tissue and necrotic core in both edges of the two stents and a positive, strong correlation was seen between increase in % of fibrofatty component and augmentation in plaque area(r=0.78, p=0.01). The use of drug-eluting stents was not associated with \"edge effect\". On the contrary, patients treated with these devices experienced less plaque growth, especially at the distal edge of the stents. Modifications in plaque composition, with increase in fibrofatty content, might partially explain these findings.

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coronary artery disease; cardiovascular imaging; intravascular ultrasound; virtual histology®; stent diagnóstico por imagem doença das coronárias histologia virtual® stents ultrassonografia intravascular

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