• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Influence of Balloon Pressure During Stent Placement in Native Coronary Arteries on Early and Late Angiographic and Clinical Outcome : A Randomized Evaluation of High-Pressure Inflation : A Randomized Evaluation of High-Pressure Inflation
  • Beteiligte: Dirschinger, Josef; Kastrati, Adnan; Neumann, Franz-Josef; Boekstegers, Peter; Elezi, Shpend; Mehilli, Julinda; Schühlen, Helmut; Pache, Jürgen; Alt, Eckhard; Blasini, Rudolf; Steinbeck, Gerhard; Schömig, Albert
  • Erschienen: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1999
  • Erschienen in: Circulation, 100 (1999) 9, Seite 918-923
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.100.9.918
  • ISSN: 0009-7322; 1524-4539
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  • Beschreibung: Background —High-pressure dilatation is considered a better stent placement strategy, but this has not yet been proved by appropriately designed studies. The objective of this randomized trial was to assess the role of high-pressure dilatation in the early and late outcome of patients undergoing coronary stent placement. Methods and Results —Consecutive patients with coronary stent placement were randomly assigned to high- (15 to 20 atm, 468 patients) or low- (8 to 13 atm, 466 patients) balloon-pressure dilatation. The primary end point of the study was the event-free survival at 1 year. Secondary end points were the incidence of stent thrombosis at 30 days and angiographic restenosis (≥50% diameter stenosis) at 6 months. The incidence of stent thrombosis was 1.7% in the high-pressure and 1.9% in the low-pressure group (relative risk 0.89; 95% CI 0.30 to 2.56). During the first 30 days, although there was no significant difference in the incidence of Q-wave myocardial infarction, the incidence of non–Q-wave infarction was 6.4% in the high-pressure and 3.4% in the low-pressure group (relative risk 1.87; 95% CI 1.02 to 3.42). The restenosis rate was 30.4% in the high-pressure and 31.4% in the low-pressure group (relative risk 0.97; 95% CI 0.75 to 1.26). Event-free survival at 1 year was not significantly different between the groups, with 78.8% in high-pressure patients and 75.5% in patients assigned to low-pressure dilatation (hazard ratio 0.85; 95% CI 0.65 to 1.11). Conclusions —The systematic use of high-balloon-pressure inflation (15 to 20 atm) during coronary stent placement is not associated with any significant influence on the 1-year outcome of patients undergoing this intervention.
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