399 Myocardial contrast stress echocardiography detects functionally significant coronary artery stenosis: Comparison with dobutamin stress echocardiography in a porcine model

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S67-S67
Author(s):  
I PEKRUL ◽  
S HARDT ◽  
A HANSEN ◽  
M GEBHARDT ◽  
W KUEBLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Stress Echocardiography ◽  
Porcine Model ◽  
Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Artery Stenosis ◽  
Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis

Relationship between Whole Blood Viscosity and Lesion Severity in Coronary Artery Disease

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gökhan Ceyhun ◽  
Oğuzhan Birdal
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Shear Rate ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Artery Stenosis ◽  
Significant Stenosis ◽  
Whole Blood Viscosity ◽  
Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Coronary Syndrome

Abstract Objective This article investigates the relationship of fractional flow reserve (FFR) with whole blood viscosity (WBV) in patients who were diagnosed with chronic coronary syndrome and significant stenosis in the major coronary arteries and underwent the measurement of FFR. Material and Method In the FFR measurements performed to evaluate the severity of coronary artery stenosis, 160 patients were included in the study and divided into two groups as follows: 80 with significant stenosis and 80 with nonsignificant stenosis. WBVs at low shear rate (LSR) and high shear rate (HSR) were compared between the patients in the significant and nonsignificant coronary artery stenosis groups. Results In the group with FFR < 0.80 and significant coronary artery stenosis, WBV was significantly higher compared with the group with nonsignificant coronary artery stenosis in terms of both HSR (19.33 ± 0.84) and LSR (81.19 ± 14.20) (p < 0.001). In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, HSR and LSR were independent predictors of significant coronary artery stenosis (HSR: odds ratio: 1.67, 95% confidence interval: 1.17–2.64; LSR: odds ratio: 2.46, 95% confidence interval: 2.19–2.78). In the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, when the cutoff value of WBV at LSR was taken as 79.23, it had 58.42% sensitivity and 62.13% specificity for the prediction of significant coronary artery stenosis (area under the ROC curve: 0.628, p < 0.001). Conclusion WBV, an inexpensive biomarker that can be easily calculated prior to coronary angiography, was higher in patients with functionally severe coronary artery stenosis, and thus could be a useful marker in predicting the hemodynamic severity of coronary artery stenosis in patients with chronic coronary syndrome.

scholarly journals Effect of Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis on Prognosis in Patients with Vasospastic Angina: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 3341
Author(s):  
Hyun-Jin Kim ◽  
Min-Ho Lee ◽  
Sang-Ho Jo ◽  
Won-Woo Seo ◽  
Hack-Lyoung Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Propensity Score ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Artery Stenosis ◽  
Vasospastic Angina ◽  
Significant Stenosis ◽  
Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Increased Risk

Vasospastic angina (VA) is a functional disease of the coronary artery and occurs in an angiographically normal coronary artery. However, it may also occur with coronary artery stenosis. We investigated the effect of coronary artery stenosis on clinical outcomes in VA patients. Study data were obtained from a prospective multicenter registry that included patients who had symptoms of VA. Patients were classified into two groups according to presence of significant coronary artery stenosis. Among 1920 patients with VA, 189 patients were classified in the “significant stenosis” group. The one-year composite clinical events rate was significantly higher in the significant stenosis group than in the “no significant stenosis” group (5.8% vs. 1.4%, respectively; p < 0.001). Additionally, the prevalence of ACS was significantly greater in the "significant stenosis" group (4.8% vs. 0.9%, respectively; p < 0.001). After propensity score matching, the adverse effects of significant stenosis remained. In addition, significant stenosis was independently associated with a 6.67-fold increased risk of ACS in VA patients. In conclusion, significant coronary artery stenosis can increase the adverse clinical outcomes in VA patients at long-term follow-up. Clinicians should manage traditional risk factors associated with atherosclerosis and control vasospasm as well as reduce the burden of atherosclerosis.

scholarly journals Cardiovascular risk profiles and stress echocardiography results in patients with hypertensive response to exercise

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 4183
Author(s):  
E. A. Karev ◽  
E. G. Malev ◽  
A. Yu. Suvorov ◽  
S. L. Verbilo ◽  
M. N. Prokudina
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Stress Echocardiography ◽  
Coronary Artery Stenosis ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Artery Stenosis ◽  
Exercise Stress ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
High Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Response To Exercise

Aim. To compare markers of high cardiovascular risk and stress echocardiography results depending on the type of blood pressure (BP) response to exercise in patients without obstructive coronary artery disease.Material and methods. Our single-center cross-sectional study included 96 patients without hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis according to coronary angiography or multislice computed tomography angiography. All patients underwent physical examination, cardiovascular risk stratification, electrocardiography, extracranial cerebrovascular ultrasound, echocardiography, treadmill exercise stress echocardiography.Results. According to the test results, the patients were divided into groups with a hypertensive response (n=41) and a normal response to exercise (n=55). Patients with hypertensive response to exercise had significantly higher values of left ventricular mass index (100,0 (90,0; 107,0) g/m2 vs 76,0 (68,0; 91,0) g/m2, p<0,0000001) and left atrial volume index (36,7 (32,0; 46,0) ml/m2 vs 29,7 (26,3; 32,0) ml/m2, p=0,000003). There was also a higher level of cardiovascular SCORE risk (5,0 (2,0; 6,0) vs 2,0 (1,0; 3,0), p=0,004); patients more often had associated clinical conditions (36,6% vs 12,7%, χ2=7,57, p=0,006) and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (39,02% vs 78,18%, χ2=15,21, p=0,0001). Pathological BP increase during stress echocardiography was associated with worse exercise tolerance (7,4 (5,6; 10,0) METs vs 10,2 (8,4; 11,95) METs, p=0,000041) and more frequent transient regional contractility impairment (46,34% vs 1,8%, p<0,00001), mainly of the lateral and inferior left ventricular walls.Conclusion. Despite the absence of coronary artery stenosis, patients with hypertensive response to exercise are significantly more likely to have markers of high cardiovascular risk and require more careful monitoring of risk factors. Also, the hypertensive response to exercise is associated with more frequent regional contractility impairment even without coronary artery stenosis.

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