Small lipid core burden index in patients with stable angina pectoris is also associated with microvascular dysfunction: Insights from intracoronary electrocardiogram
- 2 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
- Vol. 52 (1), 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-021-02380-z
Abstract
Near-infrared spectroscopy with intravascular ultrasound (NIRS)-IVUS enables precise detection of lipid core burden. Intracoronary electrocardiography (ECG) can detect slight ischemia during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), indicating microvascular dysfunction (MD) by distal embolization, etc. Thus, this study aimed to investigate whether plaques with a low max-lipid core burden index (LCBI) at 4 mm (LCBI4mm) influence MD, using intracoronary ECG. We enrolled 40 consecutive patients who underwent PCI for stable angina pectoris (SAP) due to stenosis of the proximal segment of the left anterior descending artery in this study. Max-LCBI4mm was measured for each culprit lesion. Gray-scale IVUS data including plaque burden were measured. Intracoronary ECG was performed to measure the time from the initiation of ST-segment elevation from the isoelectric baseline after stent balloon inflation to the return of the ST-segment to the isoelectric baseline after the deflation of the stent balloon, which was defined as the severity of the MD. The patients were divided into two groups according to median max-LCBI4mm of 120 as follows: low- [n = 20] and high- [n = 20] LCBI groups. The overall mean Max-LCBI4mm was 120 ± 86. No differences in baseline characteristics, including prevalence of dyslipidemia, were found between both groups, as well as in the gray-scale IVUS parameters. The severity of the MD was greater in the high-LCBI group than in the low-LCBI group (16.6 ± 9.1 vs 4.7 ± 4.8 s, P < 0.01). The no-reflow and slow-flow phenomena were not observed. Even max-LCBI4mm value <400 on NIRS-IVUS was associated with MD during PCI in patients with SAP.Keywords
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