Does Antithrombotic Therapy Influence Residual Thrombus After Thrombolysis of Platelet-Rich Thrombus?

Author:

Mruk Jozef S.1,Zoldhelyi Pierre1,Webster Mark W.I.1,Heras Magda1,Grill Diane E.1,Holmes David R.1,Fuster Valentin1,Chesebro James H.1

Affiliation:

1. From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine (J.S.M., P.Z., M.W.I.W., M.H., D.E.G., D.R.H. Jr., J.H.C.), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn; and Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine (V.F.), New York, NY.

Abstract

Background Thrombolysis to normal flow in patients with acute myocardial infarction preserves left ventricular function and decreases mortality. Failure of early reperfusion, reocclusion, or residual thrombus may be due to concurrent activation of the platelet-coagulation system. Thus, we hypothesized that the best concomitant antithrombotic therapy (recombinant [r]-hirudin, heparin, or aspirin) will maximally accelerate thrombolysis by r–tissue-type plasminogen activator (rTPA) and reduce residual thrombus. Methods and Results Occlusive thrombi were formed in the carotid arteries of 29 pigs (by balloon dilatation followed by endarterectomy at the site of injury-induced vasospasm) and matured for 30 minutes before rTPA was started, with or without antithrombotic therapy. Thrombolysis was assessed with the use of angiography and measurement of residual thrombus. Pigs were allocated to one of five treatments: placebo, rTPA, rTPA plus r-hirudin, rTPA plus heparin, or rTPA plus intravenous aspirin. No placebo-treated pig reperfused. Two of six animals treated with rTPA alone reperfused compared with seven of seven animals treated with rTPA plus r-hirudin (reperfusion time, 33±10 minutes), six of seven animals treated with rTPA plus heparin (reperfusion time, 110±31 minutes), and two of six animals with rTPA plus aspirin. The activated partial thromboplastin time was prolonged in only the rTPA plus r-hirudin group (25±0.1 times baseline) and the rTPA plus heparin group (5.3±0.2 times baseline). Residual 111 In-platelet and 125 I-fibrin(ogen) depositions were lower in the heparin-treated group and lowest in the r-hirudin–treated group (heparin versus hirudin, respectively; incidence of residual macroscopic thrombus was six of six animals versus two of seven [ P =.01]; 125 I-fibrin(ogen), 170±76 versus 48±6 ×10 6 molecules/cm 2 [ P =.02]; 111 In-platelets, 47±15 versus 13±2 ×10 6 /cm 2 , P =.10). No pigs developed spontaneous bleeding. Conclusions Thrombin inhibition with heparin or r-hirudin significantly accelerated thrombolysis of occlusive platelet-rich thrombosis, but only the best antithrombotic therapy (r-hirudin) eliminated or nearly eliminated residual thrombus.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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