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The purpose of the study was to compare the impacts of angiographically successful direct stent implantation and conventional stent implantation (stent implantation following predilatation) on long-term major cardiac events. The authors prospectively studied 40 patients who had successful direct stent implantation and 46 patients who had successful conventional stent implantation. The end-point of the study was defined as the occurrence of a major cardiac event, including recurrent angina, acute myocardial infarction, death, and target vessel revascularization. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the study groups were similar, except the indication of percutaneous angioplasty, which was more frequently unstable angina in the conventional stent group (63% vs 38%, P: 0.03). Procedural minor complications were more frequent in conventional stent implantation, and there was also a positive correlation between the conventional stent implantation and procedural minor complications (r = 0.231, P: 0.03), and postprocedural troponin elevation (r = 0.221, P: 0.04). The incidences of major cardiac events including recurrent angina, acute myocardial infarction, death, death or myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization were not different between the study groups during the long-term follow-up period (21 +/- 7.1 months for direct stent group and 20 +/- 7.5 months for conventional stent group). Overall end-points occurred in 9 patients (22%) in the direct stent group and in 9 patients (19%) in the conventional stent group. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that there was no difference in event-free survival between the patients treated with direct stent implantation and conventional stent implantation (log-rank: 1.52, P = 0.21). Two-vessel intervention and hypertension were found to be related with long-term major cardiac events (r = 0.214, P: 0.048, r = 0.206, P: 0.04, respectively). In addition to the procedural advantages, direct stent implantation may also provide comparable results with conventional stent implantation concerning the late cardiac events following successful percutaneous coronary angioplasty.

Long-Term Follow-Up After Angiographically Successful Coronary Stenting Direct Stent Versus Conventional Stent Implantation