Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction With Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Results in Chronic Endothelial Dysfunction in the Infarct-Related Coronary Artery

Autor: Keita Sano, Yosuke Watanabe, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kiyotaka Kugiyama, Takamitsu Nakamura, Toshiaki Yano, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Yukio Saitoh, Yasushi Kodama, Daisuke Fujioka, Jyun-ei Obata, Yoshinobu Kitta, Ken-ichi Kawabata
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2:384-391
ISSN: 1941-7632
1941-7640
DOI: 10.1161/circinterventions.108.821371
Popis: Background— Sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation aggravated endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in infarct-related coronary arteries. Methods and Results— This study examined the effect of SES implantation on the duration of reperfusion-induced endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in infarct-related coronary arteries and on postinfarct left ventricular dysfunction in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Patients with a first AMI due to occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and successful reperfusion using SES (n=15) or bare metal stents (BMS; n=18) were examined. The vasomotor response of the left anterior descending coronary artery to acetylcholine and left ventriculography were examined 2 weeks and 6 months after AMI. At 6 months after AMI, the impairment of epicardial coronary artery dilation and coronary blood flow increase in response to acetylcholine was recovered from 2 weeks after AMI in BMS-treated patients, whereas the responses of SES-treated patients improved but remained impaired compared with BMS-treated patients (% increase in blood flow, 77�12% in SES versus 116�15% in BMS at 10 μg/min of acetylcholine, P P Conclusions— SES implantation may delay recovery of reperfusion-induced endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in infarct-related coronary arteries and left ventricular regional dysfunction for at least 6 months after AMI.
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