PRotective Effect on the Coronary Microcirculation of Patients With DIabetes by Clopidogrel or Ticagrelor
PRotective Effect on the Coronary Microcirculation of Patients With DIabetes by Clopidogrel or Ticagrelor
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Ticagrelor has a protective effect on microcirculation during percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with Diabetes mellitus type II or in a pre-diabetic status.
Introduction:
Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Type 2 still consistently perform worse than their non-diabetic counterparts especially in the setting of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). The abnormal coronary microcirculation along with the higher risk of distal embolization of particles released from the PCI target lesion constitutes the main cause of peri-procedural microcirculatory damage.
New antiplatelet agents, in particular Ticagrelor, might also play a protective role on microcirculation. Ticagrelor inhibits cellular uptake of adenosine, increasing the circulating levels of adenosine through the inhibition of its physiological clearance. Adenosine may protect the myocardium from both ischemic, and reperfusion injury via its potent vasodilatory effects and possibly by anti-inflammatory and antiplatelet properties.
Additionally previous research have identified a more profound effect of adenosine on microcirculatory resistance associated to obesity and diabetes and a higher myocardial protective effect of Ticagrelor during PCI might be expected in this high risk subgroup of patients.
The purpose of PRotective Effect on the Coronary Microcirculation of Patients With DIabetes by Clopidogrel or Ticagrelor (PREDICT) trial was designed to investigate the protective effect of Ticagrelor on microcirculation during PCI in stable diabetic patient
Rationale:
Giving these premises in diabetics or pre-diabetics patients, Ticagrelor treatment pre-PCI might improve microcirculatory parameters (lower resistance) compared with clopidogrel (secondary hypothesis). Ticagrelor might be superior to clopidogrel in providing microcirculatory protection during PCI procedures in the same subgroup of patients (primary hypothesis).
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