title: [Holter electrocardiography before and after coronary angioplasty. Angiographic correlation after 24 hours and 6 months].
abstract: Myocardial ischaemia was searched for by Holter monitoring before and after coronary angioplasty with primary success in 31 patients. Control angiography was performed at 24 hours and 6 months after angioplasty. Twelve patients had signs of myocardial ischaemia before angioplasty (cumulated ischaemia: 743 minutes). The degree of coronary stenosis was 92 +/- 6% before angioplasty, 25 +/- 17% immediately after the dilatation increasing to 34 +/- 25% at the 24th hour (p less than 0.002). Despite successful angioplasty myocardial ischaemia persisted in 6 patients (cumulated ischaemia: 184 minutes) and was silent in 5 of the 6 cases. In these 6 cases, control angiography at 24 hours showed either a dissection (n = 4) or a filling defect (n = 2). The angiographic outcome of the postangioplasty stenosis and at 24 hours was the same in Group I without restenosis (25 +/- 14% versus 33 +/- 22%) as in Group II with restenosis (25 +/- 22% versus 37 +/- 30%). In Group I, the degradation of the result at 24 hours was reversible at 6 months (33 +/- 22% vs 23 +/- 14%). After angiographic success, postangioplasty ischaemia present in 20% of cases was frequently silent. No correlation was observed with restenosis at 6 months which raises the possibility of a reversible microthrombotic etiology. These results justify antiaggregant and anticoagulant therapy in the 48 hours following angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: Clinique cardiologique, l'hôpital Necker, Paris.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Feuvre
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Metzger
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Pailleur
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baubion
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berdah
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heulin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vacheron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012008:Recurrence
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
vernacular_title: Electrocardiogramme Holter avant et après angioplastie coronaire. Corrélations angiographiques à 24 heures et à 6 mois.