title: [Percutaneous coronary intervention versus bypass surgery in patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary disease. Coronary revascularization after FREEDOM].
abstract: Is coronary revascularization required in a patient with chronic stable coronary artery disease or can optimized medical therapy (OMT) alone be a sufficient alternative? This question has been controversially discussed for non-diabetics as well as for diabetics since the COURAGE and BARI 2D trials. According to our present knowledge, a patient will benefit from coronary revascularization only when either a non-invasive test method, such as single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial scintigraphy, stress echocardiography or stress nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, can detect relevant, objective evidence of ischemia >10% of the left ventricular myocardium or when a pathological fractional flow reserve (FFR) <0.80 can be measured in an invasive procedure for an angiographically detectable coronary stenosis. If similar relevant ischemia can be non-invasively or invasively objectified in a patient with chronic stable multivessel coronary artery disease, the often controversially discussed question arises particularly in diabetics whether a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with implantation of drug-eluting stents or coronary artery bypass surgery should be favored. The FREEDOM study (Future Revascularization Evaluation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease), published in November 2012, was the first prospective randomized study to examine this issue in diabetic patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. Despite a higher rate of stroke in the surgical cohort, after an average follow-up time of 3.8 years a significant prognostic advantage in favor of bypass surgery was detected for a combined primary endpoint of all-cause mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction and nonfatal stroke. Thus, in the new ESC guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes and cardiovascular diseases developed with the EASD of the European Society of Cardiology and published in 2013, coronary bypass surgery has a class I, level of evidence A recommendation for patients with diabetes mellitus, chronic stable multivessel coronary disease and a synergy between PCI with taxus and cardiac surgery (SYNTAX) score >22. The decision for or against a PCI/stent implantation or coronary bypass surgery in a diabetic patient with chronic stable multivessel coronary artery disease should therefore be made with the patient only after a detailed informed consent discussion and comprehensive explanation of both treatment options. In controversial cases, particularly with an equivocal SYNTAX score around 22, relevant comorbidities or anticipated method-specific complications, a one-stage ad hoc intervention during the diagnostic coronary angiography should be rejected in favor of a two-stage procedure with prior discussion of both treatment options in the heart team comprising noninvasive cardiologists, interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.
authors.affiliation: Praxisklinik Herz und Gefäße, Forststr. 3, 01099, Dresden, Deutschland, doerr@praxisklinik-dresden.de.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dörr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stumpf
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dalibor
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Simonis
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Spitzer
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000592:standards*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011859:Radiography; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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