Prognostic irrelevance of plaque vulnerability following plaque sealing in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes: an optical coherence tomography study.
Rosalia DettoriAndrea MilziKathrin BurgmaierMohammad AlmallaMartin HellmichNikolaus MarxSebastian ReithMathias BurgmaierPublished in: Cardiovascular diabetology (2020)
Clinical parameters including those describing diabetes severity as well as OCT-parameters characterizing atherosclerotic extent but not classical features of plaque vulnerability predict mortality in T2DM patients following PCI. These data suggest that PCI may provide effective plaque sealing resulting in limited importance of local target lesion vulnerability for future cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with T2DM.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- cardiovascular events
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- climate change
- optical coherence tomography
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- cardiovascular disease
- end stage renal disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute myocardial infarction
- type diabetes
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- diabetic retinopathy
- prognostic factors
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- adipose tissue
- antiplatelet therapy
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- atrial fibrillation
- current status
- skeletal muscle
- patient reported
- patient reported outcomes
- left ventricular
- coronary artery bypass