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- Ian G Cummings, Gianluca Lucchese, Sheena Garg, Manish Soni, Akbar F Majid, Nandor Marczin, Vasileios Panoulas, and Shahzad G Raja.
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK. Electronic address: i_g_cummings@hotmail.co.uk.
- Int J Surg. 2020 Apr 1; 76: 146-152.
ObjectivePatients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease and poor left ventricular (LV) function (ejection fraction [EF] < 30%) requiring revascularization are considered 'high-risk'. Limited long-term survival data exists comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) versus surgery for this cohort of patients.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed our data for 321 patients with EF < 30% who underwent multi-vessel revascularization from January 2005 to December 2015 using Cox regression analyses and inverse probability treatment weighted (IPTW) methods. We stratified patients that underwent surgical revascularization into on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and off-pump CABG and analyzed all-cause mortality at 10 years compared to PCI.Results214 patients underwent CABG (n [on-pump CABG] = 94; n [off-pump CABG] = 120) and 107 patients had PCI with second generation DES. PCI with DES had higher 10-year mortality compared with on-pump CABG (Hazard ratio [HR] = 1.86, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.46-2.42; p < 0.001) and off-pump CABG (HR = 2.32, 95% CI = 1.75-3.15; p < 0.001). This was confirmed in IPTW analyses. When adjusting for both measured and unmeasured factors using instrumental variable analyses, PCI with DES had higher 10-year mortality compared with on-pump CABG (Δ = 13.5, 95% CI = 3.2-24.5; p = 0.012) and off-pump CABG (Δ = 16.1, 95% CI = 5.9-25.8; p < 0.001).ConclusionSurgical revascularization, preferably off-pump CABG, results in better long-term survival compared with PCI using second generation DES for patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease and poor left ventricular function. Randomized controlled trials in this patient group should be undertaken.Copyright © 2020 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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