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Balloon Angioplasty Results in Increased Segmental CoronaryDistensibility: A Likely Mechanism of Percutaneous TransluminalCoronary AngioplastyIAVIER nOTAS, MD, DAVID A . CLARK, MD . FACC . FAUSfOPINTO, MD,ADRIAN CHENZDRAIIN, MD, TIM A. FISCHELL . MD, FACCSmA{ond, Califoroda aped Naslnille . reapeessee

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The precise mechntdsm(s) of improvement in blmea cross-sectional area after successful perculaneous transtuminalmennary angioplasty remains poorly understood . Earlystudies confirmed that plaque compression and extrusionand distal ®bolieation play a minimal rule in this process(t-3l. Some animal and cadaver studies have suggested thatirreversible medial igjury with "anmuysmnl" dilation might

From lIe Division d Cadiuanenlar Mrdrne. %dual UnvotsdyMedial Cones. amefad. CSafema red Dtvabn or Csniislauy . V etrbdlUnivmd0 Mead Center. Nacvie. Ta essee. his war- prmdmda par u the 64th Anmsl Sdsamk Sodas of do Anaiaal limeAnodaba. Asheea CaMaab, Noeembor 1991. It am suppoard in pailby a 13nIm Isreaquw Amd 14. FSsrhd4 Gnat I KM I1 .mm1-0I,Nsdoml Hmn. Less . and Ploud tmtnme . Nadsd IodmNs of Hmab,Blhesd0. Maryland. R. lams is me reegint d Gram IN5220 term ireFod9de kvsyacbasCh apse deb Smuddad Sdcbl tflSAaodasaut6 n me FoodMsn MAFFKE Modal Spain .

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be a primary mechanism of lumen enlargement (4-7). Morerecently (8-10), it has been suggested that a large proportionof the increase In lumen cross-sectional area after coronaryangioplasty is related to an im:rease in segmental coronarydistesibility after the media is released from the cicatrizingeffects of the noncompliat intimal plaque . This "release" ofthe media, secondary to plaque splitting, may allow thevessel to passively distend in response to hydrostatic forces(blood pressure).

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of balloondilation on segmental coronary distensibility. We used quail.titative angiographic techniques to measure the degree ofro(mnston of angioplasty balloons at the site of a coronarylesion during incrementally increasing inflation pressuresduring the first and final balloon inflation during coronaryangiopasty. Comparison of the minimal balloon diameter meach sequential pressure during the two foliation provides amean to quantify the change . if any. in segmental (lesion)coronary distensibility induced by coronary angioplsty . Inan additional series of patients two consecutive ialbtions

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balloon boundaries and minimal and mean diameters werederived for each segment . Only minimal balloon diameterswere used for subsequent data analysis because they werethought to best represent the balloon contact zone with theunderlying diseased segment. in general for a given Lesionthe waist or minimal dimension of the balloon occurred atthe same site, but minimal diameter was objectively deter-mined by a compmer-assistted edge detection algorithm tocomes: objectivity and was not necessarily at en identical sitein the balloon in every terse . The same metaodology wasused to analyze t e reference vessel, the coronary lesionbefore and after coronary angioplasty and the control exvivo balloon inflation . AB me asuremens were performed intwo consecutive frames (end-diastolic for the in viva study) .The data shown represent the average of these two measure-ments. All measurements were performed by the sameinvestigator to minimize variability. The resolution of thissystem for coronary artery analysis has been demonstratedto be ±0.06 mm (11), with a (mean) frame to frame variation-0.15 mm .

Iuamnasrolar nYnmmd procedure& The procedure fornnraemonary ultrasound image acquisition at our institutionhas been described elsewhere (12) . Briefly, intravascularultrasound images were provided by a 5F or 4.3F 30-Miteultrasound catheter (CVIS Inc .). The catheter has a lumenthat accommodates a 0.014-in. (0 .036 em) roronrry guidewire that allows its manipulation in coronary ur eries similarto balloon angioplasty systems . Images were recorded anVisa. videotape for subsequent off-line analysis .

Intravasculatriabousound studies were perforated in sevenadditional patients immediately after successful coronarysngioplasty . Images of the balloon-dilated segment and of amildly diseased pmaimal segment were recorded . In addi-ttan, as a control group. images were obtained at twocoronary sites in font cerdfac transplant recipients who badm evidence of carorary artery disease by either aagiogra-phy or Mmr coronary ultrasound. Images of the balloon-dilated vessels (f.e ., the dilated segreeat and the proximalMildly diseased se(pnent) and the coronary mtmies of dueeardl a transplant recipients were subsequently digitizedonto a 512 x 512 x 8-bit matrix in 34•bmne sequencesobtained at 30 framesis by an image processing computer(Mesira Medical Inc.). The largess (systolic) and smallest(dieatolic) lumens from the digitized cardiac cycle wereobtained for analysis . The hman-vessel interfere ; and theexternal border of the indeed layer (i.e.. imimal-medialinterface) were traced by pla®euy. This allows calculationof the "plaque" area in the proximal and balloon-dilatedsegments in the patients with coronary angioplasty (i.e.,subtracting the lumen area from the arm within the externalbmderordie indeed layer) amd the calculation of afactionalmtimal area defend as the ratio of plaque area to the arm ofthe plaque Red lumen areas. This is refund to as the plaqueinfix . A distensibaiay index was calculated for each segmentas the largest mime the smallest lumen area divided by thesmallest lumen arm multiplied by 100 . A similar definition

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Statistics. All data am presented as mean value -_ SEM .Comparisons between minimal balloon diameters during thefirst second and final inflations were analyzed by one-wayanalysis of variance using repeated measures (Schefie r test,Stsnview) . Comparisons of intravascular ultrasound mea-surements between groups were performed using theKruskal-Wallis lest. Comparisons between two variablesware performed using a Student Repaired r test or Mann-Whitney f1 test for continuous variables and the chi-squaretest for categoric variables. Analysis of satterO am plotswas performed using a linear regression approach . Data arepleated as mean values for each group, with errors barssignifying tSEM . and p < 0.05 was considered statisticallysignillcsmt .

ResultsThe patient and procedural data are shown in Table 1 .

Twenty-four lesions were studied in 22 patients . Sinele-vessel coronary angioplasty was performed in 21 patientsand double-vessel angioplasty in 1 . AS of these lesions werenew stenoses. In addition, one of the previously includedlesions restenosed, and a second dilation was performed(lesion 3. Table 2) and included in the study. In one patientwith an intetmal mammary artery bypass to the left anteriordescending coronary artery, angioplasty of the "protected"left main coronary artery was performed . The average lesionlength was 5.6 ± 0.4 mm . Nine lesions were classified aseccentric (lesion centerline in the outer 25% of the lumen) .Nine of the lesions showed tuoroscopic calcifications, but inonly four was the calcification graded as moderate or severe .No lesion was on a bend >45°, and noangiegraphic evidenceof thrombus was observed before or after coronary angio-plasty. A 2.5-mum balloon was used in 14 lesions, a 3 .0-mmballoon in 8 and a 323-end 3.5-min balloon in I each. Theresult was successful (<50% residual diameter stenusis andTIMI Sow grade 3) in all lesions. Clinically insignificantintimal dissections were observed in six patients . There wasno abrupt vessel closure or emergency coronary arterybypass surgery.

Inertia mnmaow ate of legal dlseodbllily. Minimalballoon diameters us each sequential pressure during the firstand final in vivo inllatons am shown in Table 2 . In Figure Ithe minimal diameter of the balloon at each sequentialpressure is plated for the first and final infations, At allpressures (1 to S amt), there was a significant increase in theminimal balloon diameter achieved after coronary angio-plasty. The increase in minimal balloon diameter was ¢real-est al low inflation pressures (46% at I atm [1.24 to 1.81 tons],33%at2atm(1.48to1.97mol,26%at3start [1 .67to2.11 mm], all p < 0 .0001). Although the increase diminishedat higher pressures, it remained statistically significant (14%increase at 4 arm [1,95 to 2 .21 non], 10% increase at 5 arm12.08 to 2.29 mm/, p < 0.0001). Therefore, a consistently

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)nlrarascnlar alnasopiad mesarements of dislessibllity.Intravascular ultrasound measurements at the balloon-dilated and proximal mildly diseased sites in patients withcoronary angoplasty and at the control (normal) sites incardiac transplant recipients m e shown us Table 3 . Thedistenibility index was significantly greater at the dilatedshe than at the proximal mildly diseased site of the samevessel (14 .7 a 2.2 vs. 6.9 C 1 .9. respectively. p < 0.05) .despite a significantly Foyer plague urea (I L .) T- I vs . 7.3 ±I mm= . p < 0.051 and plag" •s index (0 .62 m 0.03 vs . 0.36 .t0.04, p < 0.0.0 at the dilated site. Disteasibility measure-

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3.1 * 0.4 atm for eccentric and concentric lesions . respec-tively . p = NS) . Similarly, the increment in minimal balloondieoeters between the first and last inflation (33 .8 t 4.8%vs . 25 .6 s 2.5% mean increase for eccentric and concentriclesions . respectively. p = NS) were net signifleantiy differ-ent for eccentric versus concentric lesions.

To further elucidate the mechaaiam by which distensibil-hy is increased by angioplasty, a sepnmre cohort or fivepatients underwent a different balloon inflation protocol . Inthese patients two consecutive inflation were performed atlow pressure (I and 2 atm). NW a final sequential inflation(i e., I and 2 mm) was performed once a satisfactory resultwas achieved. The results are summarized in Figure 4 . Nosignificant increase in minimal balloon diameter was notedduring the second litigation compared with the Oral inflation.However, there was a large increase in balloon diameter(p < 0 .001) during the hand inflation at both I atm (0.78 ±0.07 vi . 0.87 t 0.07 vs. 1 .93 ± 0.08 mm, respectively) and2 aim (0.07 ± 0.07 vs. 0.91 t 0.08 vs . 2 .03 *- 0.07 mm.respectively).

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Meelmnism of coronary angioplasty. Although angio-plasty has been used to treat arterial stenosis for more thana decade, the mechanism of lumen enlargement after balloondilation remains controversial . Before balloons were intro-duced and angioplasty was performed using progressivelylarger dilators, Dotter and Judkins (I5) formulated the hy-pothesis of plaque redistribution and compression as themain mechanism of anglopasty . This hypothesis was alsoconsidered a likely mechanism of balloon angioplasty daringthe early years of this technique . However, atheromatousmaterial has been shouts to be relatively incompressible (1) .Early studies demonstrated that the farmer proposed meeh-anisma as well as plagnee exrnsims or distal embolizarionplay a minimal rob in angioplasty-induced baton enlarge-ment (1-3) . Animal and necropsy pathologic studies showedthat cracking and splitting of the atherosclerotic plaque wasa consistent findingaftercoronary angioplasty (5,6,16-18) . Itwas then hypothesized that once the plaque was fractured,the balloon could stretch the muscle fibers, increasing lumendiameter. It was proposed that overstretching the vessel wall

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Flgme 4. Bar graph demonstrating the effects of sequential lowpressure (I to 2 alai) inflation on vessel distensibility (n = 5) .Values shown are mass value `- SEM at each inflation pressure.Sequential low pressure inflatium fail to lacrosse segmental (iesien)dislensibIlry, as determined by minimal balloon diameters achievedat I•and 2atm balloon inflation pressure . After successPol coronaryatgioplasty at higher balloon inflation pressures (map S to 8 aim),there is a parked increase in segmental distensibility (p valueseompmmg fiat and second inflation to final inflation n shown) .

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Arterial dlsteoslhlkyt m1edograpbfe measurements . Pre-vious studies (28,29) have used balloon pressure-diameterrelations to try to assess different characteristics of theplaque but not specifically to try to evaluate the changesinduced by balloon angioplasty. Our data demonstrate anincrease in arterial distensibility after coronary angioplastyat all sequential balloon inflation pressures. The finding ofonly very small increases in minimal balloon diametersbetween the first and final balloon inflations in the ex vivoprocedures suggest that changes in balloon material disten-sibihty would not explain the large increases in distensibilityobserved in vivo, particularly at low inflation pressures .

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h Is recoga cad that engiogmphk : measurement of mini-msl balloon preen diameter is a relatively indirect techniquefor precise determinutiat of the physical characteristics(dlstendbihy) of the underlying arterial segment . For exam-ple, in a number of eases the minimal balloon lumen diam-eter at I arm was slightly smaller Then the measured post-agioplesty minimal lesion diameter. 'These are severalpotential enplnnations for this : 1) Balloon diameter is amname of the contrast column inside the inflated balloonand his to take into account the thickness (m two sides) cithe balloon mawrial (i .e., two sides of Pdyethylene 600 is010 mm thick (Advanced Cardiovascular Systems . personalcommmieatlon . October 19931). 2) In cases where there ismarked segmental dilation after high pressure (therapeutic)miktions, the minimal lumen diameter at physiologic bloodpressure my h larger than the inlased balloon diameter atlow Measure such that the balloon does tea contact theastesial wall and will srtderesdmate the segmental compli-ance . 3) The contrast density of Coeray 60 used in theballoon Is leas don that used (Omeipaque 3501 duringpootighplasty angiogrnphy. 4) Small air bubbles in theballoon could lead to underestimation of the balloon diame-ter, psRiculatly at low pressures. 5) Extaluminal (subin6-map contrast tray be detected during the quantitative mea-

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surements or minimal lumen diameter after coronaryangioplasty. and this may lead to overestimation of theactual diameter mediating the balloore-vessel wall contact .overall, the mining tureen diameter of the balloon was only0.12 m 0.05 ran analler than the minimal lumen diameter ofthe postangioplasty segment at s-atm balloon inflation pres-sure and was 0.05 0:0.04 mm larger than the lesion minimallumen diameter at 2 atm . Thus, it is possible that thepostangioplasty (lesion) segmental distensibility was slightlyunderestimated by the balloon diameter measurements atI am (i .e., the lumen was larger m a physiologic distendingpressure of 70 to 100 mm Hg than at the balloon Inflationpressure of 160 mm Hg1I atm). However, this underestima-tion appears to be modest and would not alter the mainconclusions of this study .

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