scholarly journals Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease: Choice of Myocardial Revascularization Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. E202041
Author(s):  
Nestor Seredyuk ◽  
Andrii Matlakh ◽  
Yaroslava Vandzhura ◽  
Mykyta Bielinskyi ◽  
Oleksii Skakun ◽  
...  

Multi-vessel coronary artery disease is quite a common state, which is often diagnosed by coronary angiography in patients with both stable coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes. Major difficulties in percutaneous coronary intervention include stent thrombosis and the need for antiplatelet therapy (aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor). Stent thrombosis leads to the recurrence of myocardial infarction and may occur within the first few hours after percutaneous coronary intervention. The use of dual antiplatelet therapy, especially that combined with low-molecular-weight heparin in the first days after myocardial infarction, poses a risk of bleeding, which often occurs in real clinical practice. Among P2Y12  inhibitors, ticagrelor causes bleeding somewhat more frequently than clopidogrel. A case of multi-vessel coronary artery disease is described in this paper. Coronary angiography revealed right-dominant circulation; occlusion of the proximal and medial segments of the right coronary artery, thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 0; stenosis of the left main coronary artery (50-60%), thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 2; diffuse stenosis of the medial and distal segments of the left anterior descending artery, thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 1; stenosis of the proximal segment of the left circumflex artery (> 75%), thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grade 1. The patient underwent percutaneous coronary intervention; the stents were implanted in the infarct-dependent right coronary artery. The clinical course was complicated by early stent thrombosis with subsequent thrombus extraction; a day later melena developed. Bleeding was stopped, the intensity of antithrombotic therapy was reduced: the combination of aspirin and ticagrelor was replaced by the combination of aspirin and clopidogrel. Six weeks after stenting of the infarct-dependent coronary artery, complete myocardial revascularization (hybrid intervention) was performed: coronary artery bypass grafting [the left internal mammary artery → the left anterior descending artery], coronary autogenous bypass grafting [the aorta → the right coronary artery and the aorta → the left circumflex artery]. The role of fractional flow reserve or instantaneous wave-free ratio-controlled complete myocardial revascularization techniques is discussed. The following algorithm for myocardial revascularization was used: percutaneous coronary intervention for the right coronary artery + coronary artery bypass grafting-3: the left internal mammary artery → the left anterior descending artery, the aorta → the left circumflex artery, the aorta → the right coronary artery.

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qais Radaideh ◽  
Mohammed Osman ◽  
Babikir Kheiri ◽  
Ahmad Al-Abdouh ◽  
mahmoud Barbarawi ◽  
...  

Introduction: There has been a continuous debate about the survival benefit of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and moderate to severe ischemia. To address this, we performed a meta-analysis of RCTs comparing PCI plus MT vs. MT alone in stable CAD patients to evaluate endpoints of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality, and MI in a larger cohort of patients with objective evidence of myocardial ischemia. Methods: An electronic database search was conducted for RCTs that compared PCI on top of MT versus MT alone. A random effects model was used to calculate relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: A total of 7 RCTs with 10,043 patients with a mean age of 62.54 ± 1.56 years and a median follow up of 3.9 years were identified. Among patients with (CAD) and moderate to severe ischemia by stress testing, PCI didn’t show any benefit for the primary outcome of all-cause mortality compared to MT(RR = 0.85; 95% CI 0.646-1.12; p= 0.639). There was also no benefit in cardiovascular (CV) death (RR = 0.88 ; 95% CI 0.71-1.09; p =0.18) or myocardial infarction (MI) (RR = 0.271 ; 95% CI 0.782-1.087; P =0.327) in the PCI group as compared to MT. Conclusions: Among patients with (CAD) and evidence of moderate to severe ischemia by stress testing, PCI on top of MT appears to add no mortality benefit as compared to with MT alone.


2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (49) ◽  
pp. 1952-1959
Author(s):  
Zsolt Piróth

Percutaneous coronary intervention is a well-established symptomatic therapy of stable coronary artery disease. Using a literature search with special emphasis on the newly-published FAME 2 trial data, the author wanted to explore why percutaneous coronary intervention fails to reduce mortality and myocardial infarction in stable coronary artery disease, as opposed to surgical revascularisation. In the FAME 2 trial, fractional flow reserve-guided percutaneous coronary intervention with second generation drug eluting stents showed a significant reduction in the primary composite endpoint of 2-year mortality, myocardial infarction and unplanned hospitalization with urgent revascularisation as compared to medical therapy alone. In addition, landmark analysis showed that after 8 days, mortality and myocardial infarction were significantly reduced. The author concludes that percutaneous coronary intervention involving fractional flow reserve guidance and modern stents offers symptomatic, as well as prognostic benefit. Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(49), 1952–1959.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1600-1602
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asif Farooqi ◽  
Bilal Rafique Malik ◽  
Aneeqa Ilyas

Background: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a nonsurgical technique for treating obstructive coronary artery disease. Aim: To assess the causes / factors leading to mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention Study design: Cross sectional study Setting: Department of Cardiology, Punjab institute of cardiology, Lahore. Duration: Six months i.e. from1stJuly 2020 to 31stDecember 2020. Methods: Medical records of 100 cases who dies after PCI for acute coronary syndrome were taken from record center. Medical record of patients aged 40 to 70 years, both genders underwent PCI and did not survived after PCI were included. Location of lesion, and severity of vessel disease, type of procedure and acute renal failure were considered as factors of mortality and were noted on proforma while analyzed in SPSS 20. Results: The mean age of the patients was 54.20 ± 8.84 years. There were 42(42%) males and 58(58%) females. History of smoking was positive in 48 (48%) cases, diabetes in 51(51%) and hypertension in 55(55%) cases. Among the factors, old age (≥50 years) was observed in 64(64%) patients while 36(36%) had age <50 years. There were 39(39%) patients who underwent PCI under emergency situation and 61(61%) patients had PCI under elective circumstances. Acute renal failure was noticed in 37(37%) patients. There were more patients of right coronary artery disease i.e. 54(54%) who underwent PCI. Conclusion: Out of all factors leading to mortality after PCI, older age at the time of PCI is the most common factor, followed by right coronary artery disease and multi-vessel disease. Keywords: Mortality, PCI, angiography, cardiovascular complications


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