Coronary interventions - Mini focus on chronic total occlusions

Clinical outcomes of post-stent intravascular ultrasound examination for chronic total occlusion intervention with drug-eluting stents

EuroIntervention 2021;17:e639-e646. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00941

Osung Kwon
Osung Kwon1, MD, PhD; Pil Hyung Lee2, MD, PhD; Seung-Whan Lee2, MD, PhD; Emmanouil S. Brilakis3, MD, PhD; Jong-Young Lee4, MD, PhD; Yong-Hoon Yoon5, PhD, MD; Kyusup Lee6, MD; Hanbit Park2, MD; Soo-Jin Kang2, MD, PhD; Young-Hak Kim2, MD, PhD; Cheol Whan Lee2, MD, PhD; Seong-Wook Park2, MD, PhD
1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3. Minneapolis Heart Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 4. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 5. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; 6. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Daejeon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Background: Few studies have evaluated intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) use in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Aims: In CTO-PCI, we aimed to (1) evaluate the clinical benefits of performing post-stent IVUS in preventing adverse clinical events, and (2) identify IVUS parameters and cut-off values for prediction of target lesion revascularisation (TLR)/reocclusion.

Methods: A total of 1,077 patients with 1,077 CTO lesions treated with drug-eluting stents (DES) were included. Clinical outcomes during a median follow-up of 6.3 years were compared between subjects with and those without post-stent IVUS using the inverse probability weighting method.

Results: Of 1,077 patients, post-stent IVUS was performed in 838 (77.8%) cases while in the remaining 239 (22.2%) cases it was not. In the weighted population, the risk of TLR/reocclusion was significantly lower in subjects with post-stent IVUS (9.6% vs 18.9%, hazard ratio [HR] 0.54, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.34-0.86, p=0.01), compared with those without post-stent IVUS. Cox regression analysis showed that minimal stent area (MSA) measured by IVUS was the only parameter independently associated with TLR/reocclusion (HR 0.78, 95% CI: 0.64-0.95; p=0.01) and the optimal MSA cut-off value was 4.9 mm2 for prediction of TLR/reocclusion (area under the curve=0.632, p=0.001).

Conclusions: In CTO-PCI with DES, post-stent IVUS evaluation was associated with a lower risk of TLR/reocclusion. The final MSA was independently associated with TLR/reocclusion with a cut-off value of 4.9 mm2.

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chronic coronary total occlusiondrug-eluting stentintravascular ultrasound
Coronary interventionsCTO
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