Prognostic Impact of Calcified Plaque Morphology After Drug Eluting Stent Implantation ― An Optical Coherence Tomography Study ―
Open Access
- 25 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japanese Circulation Society in Circulation Journal
- Vol. 85 (11), 2019-2028
- https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.cj-20-1233
Abstract
Background:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has the potential to characterize the detailed morphology of calcified coronary plaques. This study examined the prognostic impact of calcified plaque morphology in patients with coronary artery calcification (CAC) who underwent newer-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. Methods and Results:In all, 251 patients with moderate to severe CAC who underwent OCT-guided DES implantation were reviewed retrospectively and divided into 3 groups according to OCT findings of the target lesion: 25 patients (10.0%) with calcified nodules (CN), 69 patients (27.5%) with calcified protrusion (CP) without CN, and 157 patients (62.5%) with superficial calcific sheet (SC) without CN and CP. The primary endpoint was major adverse cardiac events (MACE), defined as a composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, and target lesion revascularization (TLR). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed that, among the 3 groups, the rates of MACE-free survival (log-rank test, P=0.0117), myocardial infarction (log-rank test, P=0.0103), and TLR (log-rank test, P=0.0455) were significantly worse in patients with CN. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis demonstrated that CN was an independent predictor of MACE (hazard ratio 4.41; 95% confidence interval 1.63–10.8; P=0.0047). Conclusions:Target lesion CN was associated with higher cardiac event rates in patients who underwent newer-generation DES implantation for lesions with moderate to severe CAC.Keywords
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