Journal
CIRCULATION
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 467-472Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/hc3001.091458
Keywords
angioplasty; arteries; remodeling; aldosterone; collagen
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Background-Coronary artery angioplasty triggers healing that causes constrictive remodeling. Because collagen accumulation correlates with constrictive remodeling and aldosterone has been implicated in collagen accumulation, we examined how aldosterone and the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists spironolactone and eplerenone affect remodeling and collagen in porcine coronary and iliac arteries after angioplasty. Methods and Results-Twenty-four pigs were allocated into 4 treatment groups: oral eplerenone (100 mg/d), oral spironolactone (200 mg/d), subcutaneous aldosterone (400 mug/d), or no treatment. Twenty-eight days after angioplasty of the coronary arteries, eplerenone increased total vessel area by 30% (P<0.05) and luminal area by nearly 60% (P<0.05) compared with the no-treatment group, without affecting neointima size. These effects were accompanied by a 65% reduction in neointimal and medial collagen density (both P<0.05). Spironolactone was less effective, and aldosterone tended to exert opposite effects on coronary artery structure after angioplasty. These effects were not observed in angioplastied iliac arteries. Conclusions-Eplerenone attenuates constrictive remodeling after coronary artery angioplasty by mechanisms involving reduction in collagen accumulation, which thus appears to be an important contributor to constrictive remodeling of angioplastied coronary arteries.
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