Abstract:
Objective To explore factors influencing the total X-ray beaming duration of a digital subtraction angiography (DSA) machine during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with coronary artery chronic total occlusion (CTO).
Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 224 CTO patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China from September 2021 to September 2022. According to the median value (50.55 min) of total X-ray beaming duration in CTO-PCI, two groups were established: small-beaming-duration group, which included 112 patients (74 males, 38 females) with total X-ray beaming duration<50.55 min, aged (59.0±10.0) years, and large-beaming-duration group, which included 112 patients (85 males, 27 females) with total X-ray beaming duration≥50.55 min, aged (58.0±10.0) years. The operations of two groups were achieved by the same team of cardiologists, nurses, and technicians. A case-control study was used in analyzing differences in risk factors between two groups, and risk factors with P≤0.2 were included in a binary Logistic regression model for the identification of factors influencing large beaming duration (≥50.55 min). The comparison of measurement data between the groups was performed with two-independent-samples t-test or Mann-Whitney U test. The enumeration data of the groups were compared with chi-square test.
Results The large-beaming-duration group had a significantly higher number of patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)<50% than the small-beaming-duration group (35.71% vs. 19.64%), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=7.226, P<0.05). The number of patients with calcification, blurred proximal fiber cap, and distal left anterior descending artery lesions and Japanese multicenter-CTO registry (J-CTO) scores in the large-beaming-duration group were significantly higher than those in the small-beaming-duration group (47.32% vs. 29.46%; 48.21% vs. 31.25%; 22.32% vs. 10.71%; 2 (2, 3) scores vs. 2 (1, 2) scores), and the differences were statistically significant (χ2=7.550, 6.730, 5.471; Z=−3.507; all P<0.05). Punctured femoral artery only, number of guidewires used, and number of stents used in the large-beaming-duration group were significantly higher than those in the small-beaming-duration group (23.21% vs. 11.61%; 11 (8, 12) items vs. 9 (7, 11) items; 2 (1, 3) items vs. 2 (1, 3) items), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=5.247; Z=−5.058, −2.179; all P<0.05). Results of binary Logistic regression analysis showed that LVEF<50%, J-CTO score, punctured radial artery, wire passage through the lesion, and the number of guidewires can predict extended X-ray beaming duration (≥50.55 min) during CTO-PCI (OR=0.467, 1.471, 2.159, 0.345, 1.397; all P<0.05), and the Ominibus test model had a good fitting degree (χ2=53.202; P<0.001). The overall classification accuracy rate reached 67.9%, and the prediction performance was good.
Conclusion Five factors, namely, LVEF<50%, J-CTO score, punctured radial artery, wire passage through the lesion, and the number of guidewires can be used in predicting extended X-ray beaming duration (≥50.55 min) during CTO-PCI and facilitate the construction of occupational radiation exposure and occupational safety models for interventional medical staff.