Impact of angiographic and intravascular ultrasound features on clinical outcome after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for de-novo lesions in nondiabetic and type 2 diabetic patients

Efficacy of Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents in Treating Diabetic Coronary Lesions: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study

BACKGROUND

Diabetes mellitus (DM) plays an important role in restenosis and late in-stent thrombosis (ST). The current study using optical coherence tomography (OCT) aims to compare target lesion neointima in patients with or without diabetes after zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) treatment.

METHODS

OCT images of 90,212 struts and quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) in 62 patients (32 with DM and 30 without DM) with 69 de novo coronary lesions (34 DM and 35 non-DM) both after ZES implantation and 12 ± 1 month angiographic follow-up were recorded. Patient characteristics, lesion characteristics, clinical outcomes, and OCT findings including neointimal thickness, coverage, malapposition, and intimal morphology were analyzed.

RESULTS

Baseline patient characteristics and lesion characteristics data were similar between the two groups. Higher neointimal thickness (0.14 ± 0.09 mm vs. 0.09 ± 0.04 mm, p = 0.021), more neovascularization (3.03 ± 6.24 vs. 0.52 ± 1.87, p = 0.017) and higher incidence of layered signal pattern (12.19 ± 19.91% vs. 4.28 ± 9.02%, p = 0.049) were observed in diabetic lesions comparing with non-diabetic lesions. No differences were found in malapposition, uncovered percentage, and thrombus between the two groups (all p > 0.05). Occurrence of clinical adverse events was also similar during the follow-up period (p > 0.05).

CONCLUSION

Although more neointimal proliferation and more neovascularization were found in diabetic coronary lesions when compared with non-diabetic lesions, treatment with ZES showed similar stent malapposition rate at 1-year follow-up. The data indicated that ZES treatment could possibly be effective in treating diabetic coronary lesions.

TRIAL REGISTRATION

ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT01747356.

Glycation of apoprotein A-I is associated with coronary artery plaque progression in type 2 diabetic patients

OBJECTIVE

To investigate whether glycation level of apoprotein (apo)A-I is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and plaque progression in patients with type 2 diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Among 375 consecutive type 2 diabetic patients undergoing quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), 82 patients with nonsignificant stenosis (luminal diameter narrowing <30% [group I]) and 190 patients with significant CAD (luminal diameter stenosis ≥70% [group II]) were included for analysis of apoA-I glycation level and serum activity of lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT). The control group had 136 healthy subjects. At the 1-year follow-up, angiography and IVUS were repeated mainly in group II patients for plaque progression assessment.

RESULTS

Relative intensity of apoA-I glycation by densitometry was increased, and serum LCAT activity was decreased stepwise across groups control, I, and II. These two measurements were associated with the number of diseased coronary arteries and extent index in group II. During 1-year follow-up, QCA detected 45 patients with plaque progression in 159 subjects, and IVUS found 38 patients with plaque progression in 127 subjects. Baseline relative intensity of apoA-I glycation was significantly increased in patients with plaque progression compared with those without, with values associated with changes in QCA and IVUS measurements. Multivariable regression analysis revealed that baseline relative intensity of apoA-I glycation was an independent determinant of CAD and plaque progression in type 2 diabetic patients.

CONCLUSIONS

ApoA-I glycation level is associated with the severity of CAD and coronary artery plaque progression in type 2 diabetic patients.

Impact of diabetes mellitus on vessel response in the drug-eluting stent era: pooled volumetric intravascular ultrasound analyses

BACKGROUND

Exaggerated neointimal hyperplasia is considered as the primary mechanism for increased restenosis in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) treated with bare-metal stent. However, the vessel response in DM and non-DM treated with different drug-eluting stents (DES) has not been systematically evaluated.

METHODS AND RESULTS

We investigated 3D intravascular ultrasound (postprocedure and 6 to 9 months) in 971 patients (267 with DM and 704 without DM) treated with sirolimus- (n=104), paclitaxel- (n=303), zotarolimus- (n=391), or everolimus- (n=173) eluting stents. Volumetric data were standardized by length as volume index (VI). At postprocedure, lumen VI at the stented segment was significantly smaller in DM than in non-DM, whereas vessel VI was similar between the 2 groups. At follow-up, neointimal obstruction and maximum cross-sectional narrowing (neointimal area/stent area) were not significantly different between the 2 groups with no interaction for the DES type. Consequently, lumen VI was smaller in DM than in non-DM at follow-up. In the reference segments, residual plaque burden at postprocedure was significantly greater in DM than in non-DM, although change in lumen VI was similar between the 2 groups. The arterial responses at the reference segments also showed no interaction for the DES type.

CONCLUSIONS

DM and non-DM lesions showed similar vessel response in both in-stent and reference segments regardless of the DES type. In the DES era, the follow-up lumen in DM patients seems to be determined primarily by the smaller lumen at postprocedure rather than exaggerated neointima within the stent or plaque proliferation at the reference segments.

Serum advanced glycation end-products and receptors as prognostic biomarkers in diabetics undergoing coronary artery stent implantation

BACKGROUND

This study investigated the impact of elevated glycated albumin (GA) and reduced soluble receptor for advanced glycation end-products (sRAGE) and endogenous secretory receptor for advanced glycation end-products (esRAGE) levels in serum on the severity of albuminuria, occurrence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) and 1-year clinical outcome in type 2 diabetic patients undergoing sirolimus-eluting stent-based percutaneous coronary intervention.

METHODS

We compared serum levels of GA, sRAGE, esRAGE, and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), occurrence of CI-AKI, and major adverse cardiac events at 1-year clinical follow-up in 3 groups of type 2 diabetes based on 24-hour urinary albumin excretion: I = normoalbuminuria (< 30 mg; n = 190); II = microalbuminuria (30-300 mg; n = 102); and III = macroalbuminuria (≥ 300 mg; n = 86).

RESULTS

Serum levels of GA and HbA1c increased step-wise from group I to III, and serum levels of sRAGE and esRAGE were decreased in the groups with albuminuria, with the lowest values in those with microalbuminuria. GA (Pearson's r = 0.264; P < 0.001), sRAGE (Pearson's r = -0.210; P < 0.001), esRAGE (Pearson's r = -0.145; P = 0.04), and HbA1c (Pearson's r = 0.214; P < 0.001) correlated significantly with urinary albumin excretion. After adjusting for confounding factors, GA, sRAGE, esRAGE, and albuminuria status remained independently associated with both CI-AKI and 1-year major adverse cardiac events.

CONCLUSIONS

Elevated GA and reduced sRAGE and esRAGE levels in serum are associated with severity of albuminuria and postprocedural CI-AKI, and exert a negative impact on 1-year clinical outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with sirolimus-eluting stent implantation.