Coronary Calcification and Long-Term Outcomes According to Drug-Eluting Stent Generation

  • Paul Guedeney
  • , Bimmer E. Claessen
  • , Roxana Mehran
  • , Gary S. Mintz
  • , Mengdan Liu
  • , Sabato Sorrentino
  • , Gennaro Giustino
  • , Serdar Farhan
  • , Martin B. Leon
  • , Patrick W. Serruys
  • , Pieter C. Smits
  • , Clemens von Birgelen
  • , Ziad A. Ali
  • , Philippe Généreux
  • , Björn Redfors
  • , Mahesh V. Madhavan
  • , Ori Ben-Yehuda
  • , Gregg W. Stone

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Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term impact of coronary artery calcification (CAC) on outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention and the respective performance of first- and second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES). Background: Whether contemporary DES have improved the long-term prognosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in lesions with severe CAC is unknown. Methods: Individual patient data were pooled from 18 randomized trials evaluating DES, categorized according to the presence of angiography core laboratory–confirmed moderate or severe CAC. Major endpoints were the patient-oriented composite endpoint (death, myocardial infarction [MI], or any revascularization) and the device-oriented composite endpoint of target lesion failure (cardiac death, target vessel MI, or ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization). Multivariate Cox proportional regression with study as a random effect was used to assess 5-year outcomes. Results: A total of 19,833 patients were included. Moderate or severe CAC was present in 1 or more target lesions in 6,211 patients (31.3%) and was associated with increased 5-year risk for the patient-oriented composite endpoint (adjusted hazard ratio [adjHR]: 1.12; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.05 to 1.20) and target lesion failure (adjHR: 1.21; 95% CI: 1.09 to 1.34), as well as death, MI, and ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization. In patients with CAC, use of second-generation DES compared with first-generation DES was associated with reductions in the 5-year risk for the patient-oriented composite endpoint (adjHR: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.78 to 1.00) and target lesion failure (adjHR: 0.73; 95% CI: 0.61 to 0.87), as well as death or MI, ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization, and stent thrombosis. The relative treatment effects of second-generation compared with first-generation DES were consistent in patients with and without moderate or severe CAC, although outcomes were consistently better with contemporary devices. Conclusions: In this large-scale study, percutaneous coronary intervention of target lesion moderate or severe CAC was associated with adverse patient-oriented and device-oriented adverse outcomes at 5 years. These detrimental effects were mitigated with second-generation DES.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1417-1428
Number of pages12
JournalJACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
Volume13
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jun 2020

Keywords

  • coronary artery calcification
  • drug-eluting stent
  • percutaneous coronary intervention

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