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Ventricular Fibrillation During Optical Coherence Tomography/Optical Frequency Domain Imaging - A Large Single-Center
Noriko Terada1, Tatsuhiko Kuramochi1, Tomoyo Sugiyama2
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital.
Background:
The risks of ventricular fibrillation (Vfib) associated with frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT)/optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) remain undetermined.
Methods And Results:
We retrospectively studied the occurrence of Vfib during OCT/OFDI for unselected indications. The frequency of Vfib and patient and procedural characteristics were investigated. A total of 4,467 OCT/OFDI pullback examinations were performed in 1,754 patients (median of 2.0 [2.0-3.0] pullbacks for 1.0 [1.0-1.3] vessels). OCT/OFDI was performed during PCI in 899 patients (51.3%). The contrast injection volume per pullback was 14.4 (11.7-17.2) mL with a flow rate of 3.4 (3.2-3.5) mL/s. Vfib occurred in 31 pullbacks (0.69%) in 30 patients (1.7%). No cases of Vfib occurred when using low-molecular-weight dextran. On multivariate analysis, contrast volume was the only independent factor for predicting Vfib (odds ratio, 1.080; 95% confidence interval, 1.008-1.158, P=0.029). The best cutoff value of contrast volume for predicting Vfib was 19.2 mL (area under the curve, 0.713, P<0.001; diagnostic accuracy, 87.1%).
Conclusions:
The present large, single-center registry study indicated that Vfib during OCT/OFDI was rare for unselected indications. Contrast injection volume used to displace blood should be limited to avoid Vfib.
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