title: Impact of the "stent-when-feasible" policy on in-hospital and 6-month success and complication rates after coronary angioplasty: single-center experience with 17,956 revascularization procedures (1993-1997).
abstract: This retrospective, observational, single-center study analyzed the results of a "stent-when-feasible" policy in a real-world setting. The study began in the "pre-stent" period (1993) and ended after the beginning of the "routine stent" period (1997). When the 1993 and 1997 global data were compared, the early and 6-month results included significant improvements in the rates of angiographic success (89.3% vs 97.1%), emergency surgical revascularization (1.0% vs 0.3%), freedom from in-hospital major events (91.2% vs 95.9%), and freedom from 6-month major events (77.2% vs 85.1%). The 6-month redo revascularization rate was reduced by almost half for "any catheter intervention" (19.6% vs 10.7%) and was lowest after stent use (7.7% in 1997).
authors.affiliation: The Department of Adult Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angelini
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Vaughn
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaqqa
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Fish
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects; D017073:Atherectomy; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019233:Retreatment; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome