title: Major adverse cardiac events at follow-up after bare-metal stenting versus drug-eluting stenting in ST-elevated myocardial infarction.
abstract: After thrombolytic therapy with tenecteplase for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction, 376 patients were transferred from their hospital to Westchester Medical Center for percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting. Of 376 patients, 102 (27%) received bare-metal stents and 274 (73%) received drug-eluting stents with sirolimus-eluting or paclitaxel-eluting stents. At 43 months of follow-up, major adverse cardiac events occurred in 25 (25%) of 102 patients treated with bare-metal stents versus 40 (15%) of 274 patients treated with drug-eluting stents (p = 0.024). Cox regression analysis showed that significant independent prognostic factors for major adverse cardiac events were previous coronary artery bypass surgery (hazard ratio 2.2, p = 0.019), width of stent (hazard ratio 0.44, p = 0.006), and bare-metal stent (hazard ratio 1.8, p = 0.019). In conclusion, patients with bare-metal stents had a 1.8 times greater risk of developing major adverse cardiac events than did those using drug-eluting stents after controlling the confounding effects of previous coronary artery bypass surgery and stent width.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Bredy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pierre-Louis
authors.forename: Wilbert S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Aronow
authors.forename: Chandrasekar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palaniswamy
authors.forename: Tarunjit
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Chul
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asija
authors.forename: Melvin B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Kumar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kalapatapu
authors.forename: Anthony L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Pucillo
authors.forename: Craig E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Monsen
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends; D013997:Time Factors