Effect of ticagrelor and prasugrel on remote myocardial inflammation in patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST-elevation: a CMR T1 and T2 mapping study

Lara S F Konijnenberg, Daša Zugwitz, Henk Everaars, Nina W van der Hoeven, Ahmet Demirkiran, Laura Rodwell, Maarten A H van Leeuwen, Albert C van Rossum, Saloua El Messaoudi, Niels P Riksen, N. van Royen, Robin Nijveldt, Da?a Zugwitz

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Abstract

PURPOSE: Acute myocardial ischaemia triggers a non-specific inflammatory response of remote myocardium through the increase of plasma concentrations of acute-phase proteins, which causes myocardial oedema. As ticagrelor has been shown to significantly decrease circulating levels of several pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients after acute myocardial infarction with ST-elevation (STEMI), we sought to investigate a potential suppressive effect of ticagrelor over prasugrel on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 and T2 values in remote myocardium.

METHODS: Ninety STEMI patients were prospectively included and randomised to receive either ticagrelor or prasugrel maintenance treatment after successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Patients underwent CMR after 2-7 days. The protocol included long and short axis cine imaging, T1 mapping, T2 mapping and late gadolinium enhancement imaging.

RESULTS: After excluding 30 patients due to either missing images or insufficient quality of the T1 or T2 maps, 60 patients were included in our analysis. Of those, 29 patients were randomised to the ticagrelor group and 31 patients to the prasugrel group. In the remote myocardium, T1 values did not differ between groups (931.3 [919.4-950.4] ms for ticagrelor vs. 932.6 [915.5-949.2] ms for prasugrel (p = 0.94)), nor did the T2 values (53.8 ± 4.6 ms for ticagrelor vs. 53.7 ± 4.7 ms for prasugrel (p = 0.86)). Also, in the infarcted myocardium, T1 and T2 values did not differ between groups.

CONCLUSION: In revascularised STEMI patients, ticagrelor maintenance therapy did not show superiority over prasugrel in preventing early remote myocardial inflammation as assessed by CMR T1 and T2 mapping.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)767-779
Number of pages13
Journalinternational journal of cardiovascular imaging
Volume39
Issue number4
Early online date2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2023

Keywords

  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
  • P2Y inhibitors
  • Remote inflammation

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