Heart 1999;82:68-74 ( July )

Arterial remodelling of native human coronary arteries in patients with unstable angina pectoris: a prospective intravascular ultrasound study

M Gyöngyösi^a, P Yang^a, A Hassan^a, F Weidinger^a, H Domanovits^b, A Laggner^b, D Glogar^a

^a 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria , ^b Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Vienna

Correspondence to: Dr Gyöngyösi.

Accepted for publication 21 December 1998

OBJECTIVETo investigate the use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in detecting the presence of arterial remodelling in patients with unstable angina.
DESIGNProspective case study.
PATIENTS60 of 95 consecutively admitted patients with unstable angina (41 male, 19 female), mean (SD) age 61.2 (8.1) years.
INTERVENTIONSQualitative and quantitative coronary angiography and IVUS.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESAdaptive or constrictive remodelling (AR, CR) was considered present when the cross sectional area of the external elastic membrane at the lesion site was larger than the proximal cross sectional area or smaller than the distal cross sectional area, respectively.
RESULTS22 of the 60 patients (37%) showed AR and 14 (23%) showed CR. No remodelling was seen in 24 patients (group NR). The plaque contained more thrombus and plaque rupture in group AR than in groups CR and NR (thrombus: 91% v 50% and 67%, respectively, p = 0.023; rupture: 73% v 29% and 42%, p = 0.020). AR was associated with a larger plaque cross sectional area (12.6 (SD 4.6) mm² v 10.8 (6.3) and 9.2 (3.7) mm², p = 0.001) and larger external elastic membrane cross sectional area (16.5 (5.8) mm² v 13.2 (5.2) and 14.4 (3.6) mm², p = 0.01 in group AR v groups CR and NR, respectively), while the plaque burden was larger in groups AR (74.9 (9.1)%) and CR (72.4 (16.6)%) than in group NR (66.2 (18.1)%, p = 0.005).
CONCLUSIONSIVUS is capable of detecting adaptive and constrictive remodelling of target lesions and its relation to plaque morphology in unstable angina.


Keywords: unstable angina; intravascular ultrasound; arterial remodelling; angiography

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