Published online before print July 20, 2006, doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000237605.25666.13
© 2006 American Heart Association, Inc.
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99mTc-Annexin-V Functional Imaging of Luminal Thrombus Activity in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
From the Médecine Nucléaire Hôpital Bichat (L.S.-M., F.R., O.R., J.-M.V., P.M., D.L.G.), AP-HP, Paris, France; the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (L.S.-M., F.R., O.R., J.-M.V., F.H., G.M., P.M., D.L.G.), Centre de Recherche Bichat Beaujon CRB3, Paris, France; the Université Paris, Paris, France; the INSERM (M.C., Z.T., J.-B.M.), Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France; and the CEA-DRM-SHFJ (F.H.), Orsay, France.
Correspondence to Dr Laure Sarda-Mantel, Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital Bichat, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. E-mail sarda{at}bichat.inserm.fr
Background— The mural thrombus of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is involved in aneurysm progression via several interdependent biological processes including platelet activation. 99mTc-annexin V (ANX) is a scintigraphic tracer that binds to phosphatidylserine exposed on activated platelets and apoptotic cells. Here, we evaluated the potential of ANX imaging to assess mural thrombus biological activity in an experimental AAA model. The clinical applicability was further tested ex vivo on human samples of excised AAA thrombi.
Methods and Results— Experimental AAA was created by infusing elastase into infrarenal abdominal aorta in 17 rats, and 6 sham-operated rats were used as controls. Abdominal ANX scintigraphy was performed 2 weeks later followed by quantitative autoradiography and histological studies. Among the 13 rats which developed AAA, 11 displayed intense ANX uptake within AAA by scintigraphy. ANX uptake in the aneurysms on planar and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging was higher than that observed in infrarenal aorta of sham-operated controls (target/background ratio: 5.7±0.9 versus 1.33±0.21; P<0.005 for SPECT). Aneurysm-to-background activity ratios obtained by scintigraphy correlated with ANX activity in corresponding autoradiograms (R=0.69; P<0.02). This activity was located in the thrombus area where activated platelets and polymorphonuclear leukocytes accumulated. Similar patterns were also found in all of the 7 human AAA thrombi harvested during surgery.
Conclusions— ANX imaging may assess mural thrombus renewal activity linked to permanent flowing blood interface.
Data of the present study show that 99mTc-annexin-V permits functional imaging of mural thrombus renewal activity in vivo in an experimental model of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and ex vivo in human AAAs.
Key Words: platelets • aneurysms • vascular biology • phosphatidylserine
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