Long-term outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusions

Roxana Mehran, Bimmer E. Claessen, Cosmo Godino, George D. Dangas, Kotaro Obunai, Sunil Kanwal, Mauro Carlino, José P.S. Henriques, Carlo Di Mario, Young Hak Kim, Seung Jung Park, Gregg W. Stone, Martin B. Leon, Jeffrey W. Moses, Antonio Colombo

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Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions (CTO). Background: Despite technical advancements, there is a paucity of data on long-term outcomes after PCI of CTO. Methods: We evaluated long-term clinical outcomes in 1,791 patients who underwent PCI of 1,852 CTO at 3 tertiary care centers in the United States, South Korea, and Italy between 1998 and 2007. Median follow-up was 2.9 years (interquartile range: 1.5 to 4.6 years). Results: Procedural success was obtained in 1,226 (68%) patients. Stents were implanted in 1,160 patients (95%); 396 patients (34%) received bare-metal stents (BMS), and 764 patients (66%) received drug-eluting stents (DES). After multivariable analysis, successful CTO PCI was an independent predictor of a lower cardiac mortality (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.40, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.21 to 0.75, p < 0.01) and reduced need for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (HR: 0.21, 95% CI: 0.13 to 0.40, p < 0.01); it also correlated with a strong trend toward lower all-cause mortality (HR: 0.63, 95% CI: 0.40 to 1.00, p = 0.05) at 5-year follow-up. Among patients who underwent stent implantation, treatment with DES rather than BMS resulted in less target vessel revascularization at long-term follow-up (17.2% vs. 31.1%, p < 0.01); definite/probable stent thrombosis rates were similar (DES 1.7%, BMS 2.3%, p = 0.58). Within the DES subgroup, patients treated with paclitaxel-eluting stents and sirolimus-eluting stents had similar clinical outcomes. Conclusions: Successful CTO PCI is associated with reduced long-term cardiac mortality and need for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Treatment of CTO with DES rather than BMS is associated with a significant reduction in target vessel revascularization with similar rates of stent thrombosis. Paclitaxel-eluting stents and sirolimus-eluting stents had similar long-term safety and efficacy outcomes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)952-961
Number of pages10
JournalJACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
Volume4
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • chronic total occlusions
  • drug-eluting stents
  • long-term outcomes
  • percutaneous coronary intervention

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