Protection from Reperfusion Injury with Intracoronary N-Acetylcysteine in Patients with STEMI Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Cardiac Tertiary Center

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that oxidative stress plays a principal role in myocardial damage following ischemia/reperfusion events. Recent studies have shown that the antioxidant properties of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) may have cardioprotective effects in high doses, but-to the best of our knowledge-few studies have assessed this.

OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to investigate the impact of high-dose NAC on ischemia/reperfusion injury.

METHODS: We conducted a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial in which 100 consecutive patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were randomly assigned to the case group (high-dose NAC 100 mg/kg bolus followed by intracoronary NAC 480 mg during PCI then intravenous NAC 10 mg/kg for 12 h) or the control group (5% dextrose). We measured differences in peak creatine kinase-myocardial band (CK-MB) concentration, highly sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT), thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow, myocardial blush grade (MBG), and corrected thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame count (cTFC).

RESULTS: The peak CK-MB level was comparable between the two groups (P = 0.327), but patients receiving high-dose NAC demonstrated a significantly larger reduction in hs-TnT (P = 0.02). In total, 94% of the NAC group achieved TIMI flow grade 3 versus 80% of the control group (P = 0.03). No significant differences were observed between the two groups in terms of changes in the cTFC and MBG.

CONCLUSIONS: In this study, NAC improved myocardial reperfusion markers and coronary blood flow, as revealed by differences in peak hs-TnT and TIMI flow grade 3 levels, respectively. Further studies with large samples are warranted to elucidate the role of NAC in this population. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01741207, and the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT; http://irct.ir ) registration number: IRCT201301048698N8.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions - 18(2018), 3 vom: 10. Juni, Seite 213-221

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nozari, Younes [VerfasserIn]
Eshraghi, Azadeh [VerfasserIn]
Talasaz, Azita Hajhossein [VerfasserIn]
Bahremand, Mostafa [VerfasserIn]
Salamzadeh, Jamshid [VerfasserIn]
Salarifar, Mojtaba [VerfasserIn]
Pourhosseini, Hamidreza [VerfasserIn]
Jalali, Arash [VerfasserIn]
Mortazavi, Seyedeh Hamideh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acetylcysteine
Cardiotonic Agents
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
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Date Completed 25.09.2018

Date Revised 25.09.2018

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01741207

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s40256-017-0258-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM279849680