Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2927464 Indian Heart Journal 2015 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

BackgroundAlthough the safety and effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Stents (DES) has been established extensively, reports on long term clinical outcome with angiographic findings in patients with long coronary artery lesions are not many.MethodsIn this single-center prospective registry of 100 patients, a total of 110 denovo long lesions (>20 mm) were treated with Resolute Zotarolimus Eluting Stent (R-ZES). The patients were followed up clinically at 3, 6 and 12 months and follow up coronary angiography was performed at 9-months. The primary end point was one year rate of target lesion failure (TLF) which is a composite of cardiac death, target lesion myocardial infarction or ischemia driven target lesion revascularization (TLR). The secondary end points included definite or probable stent thrombosis, 9-month angiographic restenosis and late lumen loss.ResultsThe mean age of patients was 58.7 ± 9.50 years with prevalence of diabetes as high as 60%. The mean lesion length was 24.67 ± 4.87 mm with a mean reference vessel diameter of 2.85 ± 0.32 mm and 67.3% were Type C lesions (ACC/AHA classification). Two patients died during follow-up, of which one was non-cardiac death. One patient had target vessel myocardial infarction and five patients (4.5%) had ischemia driven TLR. The incidence of TLF was 6.36%. Binary restenosis was seen in 7 out of 93 lesions (7.5%). Median late lumen loss at 9 month was 0.22 mm. No stent thrombosis was noted in the study.ConclusionImplantation of R-ZES in real-world patients with long coronary artery lesions is safe with comparable efficacy to what is observed in the treatment of less complex lesions.

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