[A comparative study of in-stent restenosis after drug eluting stents].
OBJECTIVE
To compare the long-term effect of three different drug-eluting stents (DES) for in-stent restenotic lesions.


METHODS
From April 2004 to June 2006, 390 consecutive patients undergoing DES implantation including 187 Cypher (group C), 89 Taxus (group T) and 114 Firebird (group F) with resulting in-stent restenotic lesions were studied. A mean of 2 year clinical and 7-month angiographic follow-up was carried out.


RESULTS
Baseline characteristics indicated that there were more unstable angina cases in T group and less left main disease and more triple vessel disease cases in F group. A mean of 2-year follow-up results showed no difference of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) rate among the three groups (23.0% vs 22.5% vs 13.2%, P = 0.081) and no difference of cardiac death, non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) and target vessel revascularization rate (1.1% vs 4.5% vs 1.8%, P = 0.210, 5.9% vs 2.2% vs 2.6%, P = 0.226 and 2.9% vs 2.2% vs 0.9%, P = 0.509). There was no difference of total stent thrombosis or its components among the three groups (total: 4.8% vs 3.4% vs 2.6%, P = 0.605, early: 0.5% vs 0 vs 0.9%, P = 0.560, late: 1.6% vs 1.1% vs 0.9%, P = 0.849 and very late: 2.9% vs 2.2% vs 0.9%, P = 0.509) according to Academic Research Consortium (ARC) standard definitions (definite + probable). 7-month angiographic follow-up indicated that there was a lower trend of both in-stent and in-segment restenosis rate in C and F groups (17.9% vs 29.4% vs 13.6%, P = 0.214 and 21.8% vs 35.3% vs 15.9%, P = 0.132)and in-stent and in-segment late loss was significantly smaller in C and F groups [(0.31 +/- 0.12) mm vs (0.75 +/- 0.24) mm vs (0.31 +/- 0.13) mm, P = 0.000 and (0.33 +/- 0.18) mm vs (0.61 +/- 0.23) mm vs (0.31 +/- 0.14) mm, P = 0.001].


CONCLUSIONS



RESULTS
from this 2-year follow-up, single-center study showed comparable effectiveness and safety of Cypher, Taxus and Firebird DES for in-stent restenotic lesions, but Cypher and Firebird had better effect in reducing restenosis.
Gao
Zhan
Z
Coronary Heart Disease Division, Cardiovascular Institute, Fuwai Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100037, China.
Yang
Yue-Jin
YJ
Chen
Ji-Lin
JL
Qiao
Shu-Bin
SB
Xu
Bo
B
Gao
Run-Lin
RL
D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods*; D023903:Coronary Restenosis / Q000628:therapy*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged