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Interventional Cardiology

Long-Term Clinical Outcomes After Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stenting in Massachusetts

Laura Mauri, MD, MSc; Treacy S. Silbaugh, BSc; Robert E. Wolf, MS; Katya Zelevinsky, BA; Ann Lovett, RN, MA; Zheng Zhou, MD, PhD; Frederic S. Resnic, MD, MSc; Sharon-Lise T. Normand, PhD

From Brigham and Women’s Hospital (L.M., Z.Z., F.S.R.) and Harvard Clinical Research Institute (L.M.); Harvard Medical School (L.M., T.S.S., R.E.W., K.Z., A.L., F.S.R., S.-L.T.N.); and Harvard School of Public Health (S.-L.T.N.), Boston, Mass.

Correspondence to Laura Mauri, MD, MSc, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail lmauri1{at}partners.org

Received March 20, 2008; accepted August 19, 2008.

Background— Drug-eluting stents (DES) reduce the need for repeat revascularization, but their long-term safety relative to that of bare-metal stents (BMS) in general use remains uncertain. We sought to compare the clinical outcome of patients treated with DES with that of BMS.

Methods and Results— All adults undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting between April 1, 2003, and September 30, 2004, at non–US government hospitals in Massachusetts were identified from a mandatory state database. Patients were classified from the index admission according to stent types used. Clinical and procedural risk factors were collected prospectively. Risk-adjusted mortality, myocardial infarction, and revascularization rate differences (DES–BMS) were estimated through propensity score matching without replacement. A total of 11 556 patients were treated with DES, and 6237 were treated with BMS, with unadjusted 2-year mortality rates of 7.0% and 12.6%, respectively (P<0.0001). In 5549 DES patients matched to 5549 BMS patients, 2-year risk-adjusted mortality rates were 9.8% and 12.0%, respectively (P=0.0002), whereas the respective rates for myocardial infarction and target-vessel revascularization were 8.3% versus 10.3% (P=0.0005) and 11.0% versus 16.8% (P<0.0001).

Conclusions— DES treatment was associated with lower rates of mortality, myocardial infarction, and target-vessel revascularization than BMS treatment in similar patients in a matched population-based study. Comprehensive follow-up in this inclusive population is warranted to identify whether similar safety and efficacy remain beyond 2 years.

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