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BACKGROUND: Stent ablation with rotational atherectomy has been considered a bail-out strategy for the treatment of severe stent underexpansion. Only a few reports have yet shown rotational ablation for double-layer metal struts. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of 80-year-old female patient presented to our hospital because of worsening effort angina. Coronary angiography revealed severe in-stent restenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) examinations found that severe stenosis occurred at the overlap region with 2-layer underexpanded stents and circumferential calcification beneath them. Under the guidance of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) OCT, we successfully performed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of this lesion after adequate stent ablation, high-pressure balloon dilatation, and subsequent everolimus-eluting stent implantation. The patient recovered well uneventfully and discharged from hospital 7 days later. No restenosis occurred after 12 months. CONCLUSIONS: We report a very rare case of in-stent restenosis due to double-layer underexpanded stents. The entire percutaneous coronary intervention procedure was performed step by step under the guidance of high-resolution OCT. Our findings highlight the specific value of 2D and 3D OCT guidance in double-layer stents rotational ablation.
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Angioplastia Coronária com Balão , Aterectomia Coronária , Reestenose Coronária/terapia , Imageamento Tridimensional , Intervenção Coronária Percutânea/instrumentação , Stents , Tomografia de Coerência Óptica , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Angioplastia Coronária com Balão/instrumentação , Reestenose Coronária/diagnóstico por imagem , Reestenose Coronária/etiologia , Stents Farmacológicos , Feminino , Humanos , Intervenção Coronária Percutânea/efeitos adversos , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) positron-emission tomography has been introduced as a potential noninvasive imaging tool to identify plaques with high-risk characteristics in patients with coronary artery disease. We sought to evaluate the clinical relevance of 18F-NaF uptake using optical coherence tomography (OCT), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and coronary computed tomography angiography in patients with coronary artery disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: The target population consisted of 51 prospectively enrolled patients (93 stenoses) who underwent 18F-NaF positron-emission tomography before invasive coronary angiography. 18F-NaF uptake was compared with IVUS- and OCT-derived plaque characteristics. In the coronary computed tomography angiography subgroup (46 lesions), qualitative lesion characteristics were compared between 18F-NaF-positive and 18F-NaF-negative plaques using adverse plaque characteristics. The plaques with 18F-NaF uptake showed significantly higher plaque burden, more frequent posterior attenuation and positive remodeling in IVUS, and significantly higher maximum lipid arc and more frequent microvessels in OCT (all P<0.05). There were no differences in minimum lumen area and area of calcium between 18F-NaF-positive and 18F-NaF-negative lesions. Among 51 lesions with 18F-NaF-positive uptake, 48 lesions (94.1%) had at least one of high-risk characteristics. The 18F-NaF tissue-to-background ratio in plaques with high-risk characteristics was significantly higher than in those without (1.09 [95% confidence interval, 0.85-1.34] versus 0.62 [95% confidence interval, 0.42-0.82], P<0.001 for IVUS definition; 0.76 [95% confidence interval, 0.54-0.98] versus 0.42 [95% confidence interval, 0.21-0.62], P=0.014 for OCT definition). Among the 15 lesions that met both IVUS- and OCT-defined criteria for high-risk plaque, 14 (93.3%) showed 18F-NaF-positive uptake. There was no difference in the prevalence of plaques with any adverse plaque characteristics between 18F-NaF-positive and 18F-NaF-negative plaques in the coronary computed tomography angiography subgroup (85.2% versus 78.9%; P=0.583). CONCLUSIONS: This study's results suggest that 18F-NaF positron-emission tomography can be a useful noninvasive diagnostic tool to identify and localize plaque with high-risk characteristics. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02388412.
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Doença da Artéria Coronariana/diagnóstico por imagem , Estenose Coronária/diagnóstico por imagem , Vasos Coronários/diagnóstico por imagem , Radioisótopos de Flúor/administração & dosagem , Placa Aterosclerótica , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons , Compostos Radiofarmacêuticos/administração & dosagem , Fluoreto de Sódio/administração & dosagem , Idoso , Angiografia por Tomografia Computadorizada , Angiografia Coronária/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tomografia Computadorizada Multidetectores , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Prognóstico , Estudos Prospectivos , Fatores de Risco , Ruptura Espontânea , Tomografia de Coerência Óptica , Ultrassonografia de IntervençãoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Atrial premature contractions (APCs) are commonly encountered in clinical practice. The APCs may influence heart conduction system and induce other arrhythmia. The disorder of atrioventricular conduction is related to electrophysiological phenomena, difficult to understand and diagnose. CASE REPORT: We presented a 15-year-old male patient whose baseline electrocardiogram (ECG) was confused with multiple rhythms. Electrophysiological study results showed sinus rhythm with nonconducted APCs in bigeminal rhythm. Nonconducted APCs were blocked without H wave. Some APCs conducted to ventricle with longer AH interval and HV interval. When APCs were abolished by radiofrequency ablation, this patient was free from any arrhythmia during follow-up. CONCLUSION: We considered that the basic rhythm of the baseline ECG was sinus rhythm with atrial bigeminy rhythm and narrow QRS extrasystoles (junctional); some APCs were blocked and some APCs conducted to ventricle with aberrant QRS complexes. The phenomenon of baseline ECG was caused by the APCs.