European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 31, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(19):2299-2300; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm276
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Arterial remodelling: an independent pathophysiological component of atherosclerotic disease progression and regression. Insights from serial pharmacological intervention trials
1 Division of Radiology
2 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
* Corresponding author. Tel: +1-216-445-7579. E-mail address: schoenp1@ccf.org
This editorial refers to Effect of perindopril on coronary remodelling: insights from a multicenter, randomized study by G.A. Rodriguez-Granillo et al., on page 2326
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Rodriguez-Granillo et al.1 report arterial remodelling data from the PERSPECTIVE study,2 an imaging substudy of the EUROPA study.3 EUROPA is a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial, which demonstrated that the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor perindopril reduced adverse clinical events in 12 218 patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). The EUROPA investigators suggested that the clinical benefit is related to anti-atherosclerotic effects of ACE inhibitors. However, the PERSPECTIVE substudy, which examined the impact of perindopril on atherosclerosis in a subset of 118 patients, found neither an effect on plaque burden assessed by intravascular ultrasound
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