TY - JOUR
T1 - Abnormal coronary flow velocity reserve after coronary intervention is associated with cardiac marker elevation
AU - Herrmann, Joerg
AU - Haude, Michael
AU - Lerman, Amir
AU - Schulz, Rainer
AU - Volbracht, Lothar
AU - Ge, Junbo
AU - Schmermund, Axel
AU - Wieneke, Heinrich
AU - Von Birgelen, Clemens
AU - Eggebrecht, Holger
AU - Baumgart, Dietrich
AU - Heusch, Gerd
AU - Erbel, Raimund
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2001/5/15
Y1 - 2001/5/15
N2 - Background - Residual reduction of relative coronary flow velocity reserve (rCVR) after successful coronary intervention has been related to microvascular impairment. However, the incidence of cardiac enzyme elevation as a surrogate marker of an underlying embolic myocardial injury in these cases has not been studied. Methods and Results - A series of 55 consecutive patients with successful coronary stenting, periprocedural intracoronary Doppler analysis, and determination of creatine kinase (CK; upper limit of normal [ULN] for women 70 IU/L, for men 80 IU/L) and cardiac troponin T (cTnT; bedside test, threshold 0.1 ng/mL) before and 6, 12, and 24 hours after intervention were studied. Postprocedural rCVR was the only intracoronary Doppler parameter that independently correlated with cTnT (r=-0.498, P<0.001) and CK outcome (r=-0.406, P=0.002). Receiver operating characteristic analysis identified a postprocedural rCVR of 0.78 as the best discriminating value, with a sensitivity of 83.3% and 69.2% and a specificity of 79.1% and 76.2% for detection of cTnT and CK elevation, respectively. Stratified according to this cutoff value, the incidence of cTnT elevation was 52.6% in patients with (n=19) and 5.6% in patients without (n=36) a postprocedural rCVR <0.78 (P<0.001), associated with a CK elevation >1 times the ULN in 36.8% and 5.6% (P=0.005) of patients, respectively. Conclusions - Cardiac marker elevation can frequently be found after coronary procedures that are associated with a persistent reduction of rCVR, indicating procedural embolization of atherothrombotic debris with microvascular impairment and myocardial injury as a potential underlying mechanism.
AB - Background - Residual reduction of relative coronary flow velocity reserve (rCVR) after successful coronary intervention has been related to microvascular impairment. However, the incidence of cardiac enzyme elevation as a surrogate marker of an underlying embolic myocardial injury in these cases has not been studied. Methods and Results - A series of 55 consecutive patients with successful coronary stenting, periprocedural intracoronary Doppler analysis, and determination of creatine kinase (CK; upper limit of normal [ULN] for women 70 IU/L, for men 80 IU/L) and cardiac troponin T (cTnT; bedside test, threshold 0.1 ng/mL) before and 6, 12, and 24 hours after intervention were studied. Postprocedural rCVR was the only intracoronary Doppler parameter that independently correlated with cTnT (r=-0.498, P<0.001) and CK outcome (r=-0.406, P=0.002). Receiver operating characteristic analysis identified a postprocedural rCVR of 0.78 as the best discriminating value, with a sensitivity of 83.3% and 69.2% and a specificity of 79.1% and 76.2% for detection of cTnT and CK elevation, respectively. Stratified according to this cutoff value, the incidence of cTnT elevation was 52.6% in patients with (n=19) and 5.6% in patients without (n=36) a postprocedural rCVR <0.78 (P<0.001), associated with a CK elevation >1 times the ULN in 36.8% and 5.6% (P=0.005) of patients, respectively. Conclusions - Cardiac marker elevation can frequently be found after coronary procedures that are associated with a persistent reduction of rCVR, indicating procedural embolization of atherothrombotic debris with microvascular impairment and myocardial injury as a potential underlying mechanism.
KW - Blood flow
KW - Creatine kinase
KW - Myocardial infarction
KW - Stents
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U2 - 10.1161/01.CIR.103.19.2339
DO - 10.1161/01.CIR.103.19.2339
M3 - Article
C2 - 11352881
AN - SCOPUS:14344273070
SN - 0009-7322
VL - 103
SP - 2339
EP - 2345
JO - Circulation
JF - Circulation
IS - 19
ER -