Title
Coronary Atherosclerotic Precursors of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-5-2018
Publication Title
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Abstract
© 2018 Background: The association of atherosclerotic features with first acute coronary syndromes (ACS) has not accounted for plaque burden. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify atherosclerotic features associated with precursors of ACS. Methods: We performed a nested case-control study within a cohort of 25,251 patients undergoing coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) with follow-up over 3.4 ± 2.1 years. Patients with ACS and nonevent patients with no prior coronary artery disease (CAD) were propensity matched 1:1 for risk factors and coronary CTA–evaluated obstructive (≥50%) CAD. Separate core laboratories performed blinded adjudication of ACS and culprit lesions and quantification of baseline coronary CTA for percent diameter stenosis (%DS), percent cross-sectional plaque burden (PB), plaque volumes (PVs) by composition (calcified, fibrous, fibrofatty, and necrotic core), and presence of high-risk plaques (HRPs). Results: We identified 234 ACS and control pairs (age 62 years, 63% male). More than 65% of patients with ACS had nonobstructive CAD at baseline, and 52% had HRP. The %DS, cross-sectional PB, fibrofatty and necrotic core volume, and HRP increased the adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of ACS (1.010 per %DS, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.005 to 1.015; 1.008 per percent cross-sectional PB, 95% CI: 1.003 to 1.013; 1.002 per mm3 fibrofatty plaque, 95% CI: 1.000 to 1.003; 1.593 per mm3 necrotic core, 95% CI: 1.219 to 2.082; all p < 0.05). Of the 129 culprit lesion precursors identified by coronary CTA, three-fourths exhibited <50% stenosis and 31.0% exhibited HRP. Conclusions: Although ACS increases with %DS, most precursors of ACS cases and culprit lesions are nonobstructive. Plaque evaluation, including HRP, PB, and plaque composition, identifies high-risk patients above and beyond stenosis severity and aggregate plaque burden.
Volume
71
Issue
22
First Page
2511
Last Page
2522
DOI
10.1016/j.jacc.2018.02.079
ISSN
07351097
Recommended Citation
Chang, Hyuk Jae; Lin, Fay Y.; Lee, Sang Eun; Andreini, Daniele; Bax, Jeroen; Cademartiri, Filippo; Chinnaiyan, Kavitha; Chow, Benjamin J.W.; Conte, Edoardo; Cury, Ricardo C.; Feuchtner, Gudrun; Hadamitzky, Martin; Kim, Yong Jin; Leipsic, Jonathon; Maffei, Erica; Marques, Hugo; Plank, Fabian; Pontone, Gianluca; Raff, Gilbert L.; van Rosendael, Alexander R.; Villines, Todd C.; Weirich, Harald G.; Al'Aref, Subhi J.; Baskaran, Lohendran; Cho, Iksung; Danad, Ibrahim; Han, Donghee; Heo, Ran; Lee, Ji Hyun; Rivzi, Asim; Stuijfzand, Wijnand J.; Gransar, Heidi; and Lu, Yao, "Coronary Atherosclerotic Precursors of Acute Coronary Syndromes" (2018). Articles. 186.
https://scholarlyworks.beaumont.org/cardiology_articles/186