Relationship between plasma inflammatory markers and plaque fibrous cap thickness determined by intravascular optical coherence tomography Export

@article{citeulike:6054100, abstract = {Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between human plaque fibrous cap thickness detected by intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the plasma levels of inflammatory factors in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods and results: OCT was used to measure the fibrous cap thickness of coronary artery atherosclerotic plaques in patients with acute myocardial infarct (AMI), unstable angina pectoris (UAP) and stable angina pectoris (SAP). Plasma levels of inflammatory factors including highly sensitive C-reacting proteins (hs-CRP), interleukin-18 (IL-18), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-{alpha}) were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); and peripheral white blood cell (WBC) counts were performed. Our results demonstrated that the plasma levels of inflammatory factors and WBC count were correlated inversely with fibrous cap thickness (r = -0.775 for hs-CRP, r = -0.593 for IL-18, r = -0.60 for TNF-{alpha}, and r = -0.356 for WBC count). Patients with cap thickness < 65 {micro}m [defined to be thin-cap fibroatheromas (TCFA)] had higher plasma levels of inflammatory factors as well as WBC count than those with thicker fibrous caps. Receiver operator curves for hs-CRP, IL-18, TNF-{alpha} and WBC count, which displayed the capability of prediction about TCFA showed the area under the curves were 0.95, 0.86, 0.79 and 0.70 (P<0.05), respectively. ROC curve analysis confirmed that an hs-CRP cut-off at 1.66 mg/L would detect TCFA with a sensitivity of 96\% and a specificity of 90\%, and was the strongest independent predictor for TCFA. Conclusion: There is an inverse linear correlation between fibrous cap thickness and plasma levels of inflammatory markers. The plasma hs-CRP concentration is the strongest independent predictor for TCFA. 10.1136/hrt.2009.175455}, author = {Li, Qing-Xian and Fu, Qing-Qing and Shi, Sheng-Wei and Wang, Yan-Fu and Xie, Jiang-Jiao and Yu, Xian and Cheng, Xiang and Liao, Yu-Hua}, citeulike-article-id = {6054100}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2009.175455}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://heart.bmj.com/content/hrt.2009.175455v1/.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://heart.bmj.com/content/hrt.2009.175455v1/.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19875365}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19875365}, day = {28}, doi = {10.1136/hrt.2009.175455}, journal = {Heart}, keywords = {il-18, il18-review}, month = {October}, pages = {hrt.2009.175455+}, posted-at = {2009-11-01 22:28:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Relationship between plasma inflammatory markers and plaque fibrous cap thickness determined by intravascular optical coherence tomography}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2009.175455}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6054100 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6054100 N2 - Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between human plaque fibrous cap thickness detected by intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the plasma levels of inflammatory factors in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods and results: OCT was used to measure the fibrous cap thickness of coronary artery atherosclerotic plaques in patients with acute myocardial infarct (AMI), unstable angina pectoris (UAP) and stable angina pectoris (SAP). Plasma levels of inflammatory factors including highly sensitive C-reacting proteins (hs-CRP), interleukin-18 (IL-18), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-{alpha}) were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); and peripheral white blood cell (WBC) counts were performed. Our results demonstrated that the plasma levels of inflammatory factors and WBC count were correlated inversely with fibrous cap thickness (r = -0.775 for hs-CRP, r = -0.593 for IL-18, r = -0.60 for TNF-{alpha}, and r = -0.356 for WBC count). Patients with cap thickness < 65 {micro}m [defined to be thin-cap fibroatheromas (TCFA)] had higher plasma levels of inflammatory factors as well as WBC count than those with thicker fibrous caps. Receiver operator curves for hs-CRP, IL-18, TNF-{alpha} and WBC count, which displayed the capability of prediction about TCFA showed the area under the curves were 0.95, 0.86, 0.79 and 0.70 (P<0.05), respectively. ROC curve analysis confirmed that an hs-CRP cut-off at 1.66 mg/L would detect TCFA with a sensitivity of 96% and a specificity of 90%, and was the strongest independent predictor for TCFA. Conclusion: There is an inverse linear correlation between fibrous cap thickness and plasma levels of inflammatory markers. The plasma hs-CRP concentration is the strongest independent predictor for TCFA. 10.1136/hrt.2009.175455 JF - Heart TI - Relationship between plasma inflammatory markers and plaque fibrous cap thickness determined by intravascular optical coherence tomography SP - hrt.2009.175455 KW - il-18 KW - il18-review AU - Li, Qing-Xian AU - Fu, Qing-Qing AU - Shi, Sheng-Wei AU - Wang, Yan-Fu AU - Xie, Jiang-Jiao AU - Yu, Xian AU - Cheng, Xiang AU - Liao, Yu-Hua PY - 2009/10/28/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2009.175455 ER -