A Modified Treatment Failure Classification System with Complete and Exhaustive Accounting of Any Adverse Events Related to the Previous Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Anders M. Galløe, Jørgen L. Jeppesen, Søren Boesgaard, John Godtfredsen, Niels Bligaard, Jens F. Lassen, Henning Kelbæk, Anders Junker, Jan Ravkilde, Peter Riis Hansen, Carsten T. Larsen, Ghita B. Stephansen, Ulrik Abildgaard

Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark.
Department of Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark.

DOI: 10.4236/wjcd.2014.49051                

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the clinical outcome related to treatment failure of the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) itself. Background: When considering the addition of PCI to the medical treatment of angina, it is necessary to know the balance between the benefit and the risk of the PCI itself, but the latter remains unknown. The usual outcome measures are imprecise because they contain events unrelated to the previous PCI and because some events clearly caused by PCI treatment failures are omitted. Methods: In total, 2098 unselected patients were randomized to receive either sirolimus-(n = 1065) or paclitaxel-(n = 1033) eluting coronary stents and followed for five years in the SORT OUT II. Any death, cardiac death, myocardial infarction (MI), stent thrombosis and documented stenosis was classified and combined to a “patient oriented clinical outcome” (POCO), the classical “major adverse cardiac events” (MACE) and the new “PCI-treatment oriented clinical outcome” (TOCO). Results: POCO occurred in 746 patients (35.6%), MACE in 467 patients (22.3%) and TOCO in 293 patients (14.0%), thus TOCO amounted to 39% of the POCO and to 63% of the MACE. Conclusion: By introduction of the present PCI treatment failure classification system, the clinical outcome of PCI-treatment itself may be credulously estimated by the rate of TOCO and eventually PCI is substantially better than what might be perceived from the classically used POCO and MACE rates.

Keywords

PCI, Angina, Clinical Outcome

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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