Long-term follow-up results in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents: results from a single high-volume PCI centre.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess both short-term and long-term prognosis in consecutive patients with coronary heart disease treated with drug-eluting stents in a high-volume percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centre.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

A hospital in the Henan province, China, between 2009 and 2011.

Participants

A total of 2533 patients were enrolled. Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with urgent PCI accounted for 3.9% of cases; patients with STEMI treated with delayed PCI accounted for 20.5% of cases; patients with stable angina accounted for 16.5% of cases; and patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) accounted for 58.6% of cases.

Primary outcomes

Death, major adverse cardiac and

SUBMITTER: Yao HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4127920 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature