Publication Date
11-1-2022
Journal
The Texas Heart Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-20-7384
PMID
36515930
Publication Date(s)
November 2022
Language
English
PMCID
PMC9809085
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
12-13-2022
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Keywords
Percutaneous coronary intervention, lipids, troponin I, myocardial reperfusion injury
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Periprocedural myocardial injury is a predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention.
METHODS: The authors examined the effects of preprocedural lipid levels (low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, and triglycerides) in 977 patients with coronary artery disease who underwent elective percutaneous coronary intervention.
RESULTS: Elevated cardiac troponin I level (≥5× the upper limit of normal) was used to indicate periprocedural myocardial injury. Serum lipid samples were collected 12 hours preprocedurally. Cardiac troponin I was collected 1, 6, and 12 hours postprocedurally. Correlations between preprocedural lipid levels and postprocedural cardiac troponin I were studied. Low-density lipoprotein levels were less than 70 mg/dL in 70% of patients and greater than 100 mg/dL in only 7.4% of patients; 13% had triglyceride levels greater than or equal to 150 mg/dL, and 96% had high-density lipoprotein levels less than 40 mg/dL. Patients with elevated cardiac troponin I had significantly lower left ventricular ejection fraction than did those with cardiac troponin I levels less than 5× the upper limit of normal (P = .01). Double-and triple-vessel disease were more common in patients with elevated cardiac troponin I (P < .002). Multivariable logistic and linear regression analyses revealed no statistically significant associations between lipid levels and postprocedural cardiac troponin I elevation, possibly because such large proportions of included patients had low levels of low-density lipoprotein (70%) and a history of statin intake (86%).
CONCLUSION: The authors found no association between lipid profile and periprocedural myocardial injury.