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- Title
Does claudication affect the development of coronary collaterals?
- Authors
Özdemir, Özcan; Geyik, Bilal; Tosun, Özgür; Soylu, Mustafa; Demir, Ahmet Duran; Alyan, Ömer; Topaloglu, Serkan; Aras, Dursun; Şaşmaz, Hatice; Arda, Kemal; Korkmaz, Sule
- Abstract
Atherothrombosis is a generalized disease process that affects large- and medium-diameter arteries throughout the arterial tree. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation between collaterals in different vascular beds. Patients who had undergone digital subtraction angiography for symptomatic lower extremity peripheral arterial disease and coronary angiography after an acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI) were compared with a control group composed of those patients who were hospitalized for acute anterior MI and underwent coronary angiography but had no claudication and had an ankle-brachial index of greater than 0.9 in both legs. In claudicants, stenosis in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) (90.3 ± 17.5 vs 78.6 ± 13.8, P = 0.005) was greater compared with the patients without claudication. The collaterals to the LAD (88% vs 37.5%, P = 0.001) and the collateral grades (1.7 ± 0.7 vs 0.7 ± 0.9, P = 0.001) were higher in the patients with claudication compared with those without claudication. A previous history of angina (52.2% vs 16.3%, P = 0.001), claudication (39.1% vs 4.6%, P = 0.001), and peripheral collaterals (45.7% vs 6.9%, P = 0.001) were higher in the patients with coronary collaterals than in those without. The factors affecting the development of coronary collaterals were claudication [relative risk (RR): 8.8; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.1–39.8], peripheral collaterals (RR: 1.1; 95% CI: 1.1–1.3), and LAD stenosis (RR: 1.2; 95% CI: 0.03–29.1). Our results suggest that the presence of collateralization or angiogenesis in one vascular bed highly predicts collateralization in another arterial bed.
- Subjects
INTERMITTENT claudication; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIGITAL subtraction angiography; MYOCARDIAL infarction; ARTERIES; NEOVASCULARIZATION
- Publication
Heart & Vessels, 2004, Vol 19, Issue 3, p116
- ISSN
0910-8327
- Publication type
Article