Case and Technique Reviews: Calcified Lesions, Plaque Modification, and Atherectomy
Case and Technique Reviews: Calcified Lesions, Plaque Modification, and Atherectomy
Case and Technique Reviews: Calcified Lesions, Plaque Modification, and Atherectomy
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Disclosure Statement of Financial Interest
• Ajay J. Kirtane
Institutional grants to Columbia University
and/or Cardiovascular Research Foundation
from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Abbott
Vascular, Abiomed, CSI, CathWorks,
Siemens, Philips, ReCor Medical
The Underexpanded Stent: This is a Real Problem
• Moderate:
Seen only during
cardiac motion,
usually one side
of vessel
• Severe:
Seen on still frame,
usually both sides
of vessel
IVUS Detection of Calcium
50.6% 54.2%
20.0
Event Rate (%)
p<0.001
15.0
13.2
p=0.003
10.3
10.0 8.5
p=0.489 5.4
5.0 4.1 4.3
2.7
1.6 1.5 1.6
0
0.0
Cardiac Death MI TVR MACE
Stentablation
Kobayashi et al.
CCI
2001;52:208-11
Calcium Volume Index (CVI) Scoring System
Calcification on Imaging?
- +
Mild, Mod/severe,
Adventitial Luminal
Non-atherectomy Atherectomy
strategy Strategy
Strategic Failure
guide wire
FDA approved May 1993
1.5mm 1.75mm
1.25 mm 2.0mm
sheath
4.3 french O.D.
DIAMONDBACK 360: Coronary
Orbital Atherectomy System
Device Features
•Simple device setup
On-handle speed control
•Microsecond feedback •Low (80K) and High Speed (120K)
to changes in loading
•135cm usable length
Power on/off switch
•8 cm axial travel
Electric motor
powered
Eccentric handle
diamond coated
crown
ViperSlide® Lubricant
•ViperSlide reduces friction during
Saline Infusion Pump operation
•Mounts directly on to an IV pole •20ml ViperSlide per liter of saline
•Provides power
•Delivers fluid
•Includes saline sensor
Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL)
• Atherectomy
• Specialty Balloon
• NC Balloon
• Imaging
Randomized in ECLIPSE
ECLIPSE
Evaluation of Treatment Strategies for Severe CaLcifIc Coronary
Arteries: Orbital Atherectomy vs. Conventional Angioplasty Prior
to Implantation of Drug Eluting StEnts
NC 3.0 x 15 mm
@ 16 atm
NC 3.5 x 15 @ 14 atm
IVUS
IVUS (post Atherectomy/POBA)
Unable to advance
stent to lesion
WHAT
NEXT?
6F Guide Extension
Final (after postdilation/IVUS)
Case Presentation
• 69 y.o. male with HTN, HLD, • Vitals: T 36.4, HR 75, BP: 139/82,
CVA (25 years ago, residual R RR 18, SpO2 98% on RA.
hemiparesis) • PE: No JVD, RRR, nml S1/S2, no
murmur
• CAD (with MI in the past) • CTA B/L
• Worsening exertional angina, • +2 pulses b/l, no edema
no rest symptoms Labs:
WBC: 9.43 / Hb: 15.5 (MCV: 91.1) /
• Medications: Hct: 44.9 / Plt: 203
• Echocardiogram:
EF 20-25%
Anterior/
anteroseptal/apical
akinesis (without
thrombus)
Remaining walls
variably hypokinetic
Diagnostic Catheterization
RHC:
RA 17/10 (10)
RV 31/17
PA 31/20 (25)
PW 24/20 (19)
PA sat 66%
AO sat 94%
CO 4.6
CI 2.3
AoP: 89/58/72
Diagnostic Catheterization
Diagnostic Catheterization
What Next?
What Next?
Viability Study: no significant viability in the
LAD distribution. All other walls are viable.
Access and Setup
6-7F slender Ao 105/77/88
RRA
RA 13/9 (8)
Ultrasound- RV 33/13
guided 5F RFA PA 33/16 (22)
PW 12/9 (8)
(swapped for
14F Impella AO sat 96%
sheath) PA sat 63%
7F RFV CO 4.27
CI 2.18
Access and Setup