Abstract
Background
Prasugrel was superior to clopidogrel in the setting of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and recent data highlighted its possible role in the setting of complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Nonetheless, evidence supporting its use in high bleeding risk population are lacking.
Purpose
The aim of this post-hoc subgroup analysis was to evaluate the impact of prasugrel administration in elderly patients undergoing complex PCI for ACS. A primary composite endpoint of composite of mortality, myocardial infarction, disabling stroke and re-hospitalization for cardiovascular causes or bleeding within one year and secondary endpoints of all-cause mortality and any bleeding at 1 year were analyzed.
Methods
In the multicenter Elderly ACS 2 Study 1,443 patients aged >74 y were randomly assigned to receive low-dose prasugrel (5 mg) or clopidogrel (75 mg) and were prospectively followed for 1 year (Table 1). Complex PCI was defined if ≥3 lesions were treated, if ≥3 stents were deployed, or if any bifurcation, trifurcation, chronic total obstruction or moderate-to-severe calcified lesions were treated.
Results
Patients undergoing complex PCI (n=607) did not experience worse outcome, as compared to those with simpler PCI, in terms of primary endpoint (p=0.21, Figure 1A). Furthermore, in this subgroup, no significant difference was observed with prasugrel vs clopidogrel with regard to the primary endpoint (HR 1.17; CI 0.819–1.67; p=0.39, Figure 1A), all-cause death and bleeding (Figure 1C and 1D). No significant interaction was observed between treatment and PCI complexity (interaction p=0.34).
Table 1 Overall Non-complex PCI Complex PCI p value Age (y) 80.60±4.46 80.00 [77.00, 84.00] 80.00 [77.00, 83.00] 0.215 STE-ACS 595 (41.2) 272 (32.5) 323 (53.4) <0.001 Diabetes mellitus 253 (17.5) 159 (19.0) 94 (15.5) 0.104 LVEF 48.27±9.59 49.08±9.55 47.26±9.54 0.002 Total number of diseased vessels 2.29±1.06 2.22±1.06 2.38±1.05 0.005 Previous Myocardial Infarction 274 (19.0) 171 (20.4) 103 (17.0) 0.122 Randomized to prasugrel 713 (49.4) 404 (48.2) 404 (48.2) 0.307 Data are expressed as mean ± SD or [IQR] and count/valid %).
Figure 1
Conclusions
In elderly patients presenting with ACS low-dose prasugrel was comparable to clopidogrel in terms of all-cause mortality and any bleeding at 1 year.
Acknowledgement/Funding
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Time Course of Ischemic and Bleeding Burden in Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Randomized to Low‐Dose Prasugrel or Clopidogrel
