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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages 1538-1545Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01805-3
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OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether reperfusion and the calcium channel blocker amlodipine or the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor enalapril, during healing over six weeks after myocardial infarction (MI), limit structural vascular remodeling in the noninfarct zone (NIZ), BACKGROUND The effect of reperfusion and amlodipine or enalapril on structural vascular remodeling during healing of MI has not been determined. METHODS We randomly, assigned 54 dogs to reperfused or nonreperfused MI, followed by, twice-daily doses of oral placebo, amlodipine (5 mg) or enalapril (5 mg) for six weeks and three days off treatment, or to three matching sham groups. We measured in vivo hemodynamic data and left ventricular (LV) function and remodeling (by echocardiography) over the six weeks, as well as ex vivo structural vascular, ventricular and collagen remodeling in the hearts after six weeks. RESULTS Compared with placebo and sham groups, both amlodipine arid enalapril with or without reperfusion produced LV unloading and limited structural LV remodeling arid dysfunction over six weeks in vivo, and also decreased the NIZ resistance vessel media/lumen area ratio at six weeks ex vivo. In addition, amlodipine, but not enalapril, preserved infarct scar collagen and increased the border zone collagen volume fraction and perivascular fibrosis, its well as NIZ resistance vessel media thickness. Enalapril, but not amlodipine, decreased transforming growth factor-beta in the border zone and NIZ. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that therapy with amlodipine and enalapril during healing after reperfused MI Emits structural vascular remodeling in the NIZ, probably by different mechanisms. (C) 2002 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
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