IVUS analysis of the acute and long-term stent result using motorized pullback: Intraobserver and interobserver variability

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-250

  Regar, Evelyn ^a   Werner, Frank ^a   Klauss, Volker ^a   Siebert, Uwe ^b   Henneke, Karl Heinz ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   König, Andreas ^a   Theisen, Karl ^a   Mudra, Harald ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Observer agreement; Stenting; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MORPHOMETRICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTENOSIS;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032734186     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(199911)48:3<245::AID-CCD1>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Nishimura RA, Edwards WD, Warnes CA, Reeder GS, Holmes DR, Tajik AJ, Yock PG. Intravascular ultrasound imaging: in vitro validation and pathologic correlation. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990;16: 145-154.
2. Hall P, Colombo A, Almagor Y, Maiello L, Martini G, Tobis JM. Preliminary experience with intravascular ultrasound guided Palmaz-Schatz coronary stenting: the acute and short term results on a consecutive series of patients. J Intervent Cardiol 1994;7:141-159.
3. Slepian MJ. Application of intraluminal ultrasound imaging to vascular stenting. Int J Cardiol Imaging 1991;6:285-311.
4. Colombo A, Hall P, Nakamura S, Almagor Y, Maiello L, Martini G, Gaglione A, Goldberg SL, Tobis JM. Intracoronary stenting without anticoagulation accomplished with intravascular ultrasound guidance. Circulation 1995;91:1676-1688.
5. DeJaegere P, Mudra H, Figulla H, Almagor Y, Doucet S, Penn I, Colombo A, Hamm C, Bartorelli A, Rothman M, Nobuyoshi M, Yamaguchi T, Voudris V, DiMario C, Makovski S, Hausmann D, Rowe S, Rabinovich S, Sunamura M, van Es GA. Intravascular ultrasound-guided optimized stent deployment: immediate and 6 months clinical and angiographic results from the multicenter ultrasound stenting in coronaries study (MUSIC study). Eur Heart J 1998;19:1214-1223.
6. Mudra H, Regar E, Klauss V, Werner F, Henneke KH, Sbarouni E, Theisen K. Serial follow-up after optimized ultrasound-guided deployment of Palmaz-Schatz stents: in-stent neointimal proliferation without significant reference segment response. Circulation 1997;95:363-370.
7. Hausmann D, Lundkvist AJ, Friedrich GJ, Mullen WL, Fitzgerald PJ, Yock PG. Intracoronary ultrasound imaging: intraobserver and interobserver variability of morphometric measurements. Am Heart J 1994;128:674-680.
8. Wenguang L, Gussenhoven WJ, Zhong Y, The SH, DiMario C, Madretsma S, van Egmond F, de Feyter P, Pieterman H, van Urk H. Validation of quantitative analysis of intravascular ultrasound images. Int J Cardiol Imaging 1991;6:247-253.
9. Kearney P, Ramo PM, Shaw TRD, Starkey IR, McMurray JV, Sutherland GR. Analysis of reproducibility of reference lumen quantitation with intravascular ultrasound in stented coronary arteries. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 1997;40:1-7.
10. Mintz GS, Griffin J, Chuang YC, Pichard A, Kent KM, Satler LF, Popma JJ, Leon MB. Reproducibility of the intravascular ultrasound assessment of stent implantation in saphenous vein grafts. Am J Cardiol 1995;75:1267-1270.
11. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;1(8476):307-310.
12. Isner JM, Rosenfield K, Losordo DW, Rose L, Langevin RE Jr, Razvi S, Kosowsky BD. Combination balloon-ultrasound imaging catheter for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty: validation of imaging, analysis of recoil, and identification of plaque fracture. Circulation 1991;84:739-754.
13. Moriuchi M, Tobis JM, Mahon D, Gessert J, Griffith J, McRae M, Moussabeck O, Henry WL. The reproducibility of intravascular ultrasound imaging in vitro. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1990;3:444-450.
14. Weissman NJ, Palacios IF, Weyman AE. Dynamic expansion of the coronary arteries: implications for intravascular ultrasound measurements. Am Heart J 1995;130:46-51.
15. v.Birgelen C, Kutryk MJ, Gil R, Ozaki Y, DiMario C, Roelandt JR, DeFeyter PJ, Serruys PW. Quantification of the minimal lumen cross-sectional area after coronary stenting by two- and three-dimensional intravascular ultrasound versus edge detection and videodensitometry. Am J Cardiol 1996;78:520-525.