Comparison of Triple Anti-Platelet Therapy and Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Who Had No-Reflow Phenomenon During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Circ J. 2013 Aug 29;
Authors: Lee KH, Ahn Y, Kim SS, Rhew SH, Jeong YW, Jang SY, Cho JY, Jeong HC, Park KH, Yoon NS, Sim DS, Yoon HJ, Kim KH, Hong YJ, Park HW, Kim JH, Cho JG, Park JC, Jeong MH, Cho MC, Kim CJ, Kim YJ, KAMIR (Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry) Investigators
Abstract
Background: No-reflow phenomenon is a serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and associated with poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to determine whether triple anti-platelet therapy could improve clinical outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who had no-reflow phenomenon during PCI compared with dual anti-platelet therapy. Methods and Results: A total of 727 eligible patients received either dual anti-platelet therapy (aspirin and clopidogrel; dual group, n=532) or triple anti-platelet therapy (aspirin, clopidogrel, and cilostazol; triple group, n=195). The triple group received additional cilostazol for at least 1 month. One-year major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including death, myocardial infarction (MI), target vessel revascularization (TVR) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) were evaluated. The triple group had a similar incidence of major bleeding and in-hospital mortality compared with the dual group. At 1 year, the triple group had significantly lower cardiac mortality (17.7% vs. 11.8%, log-rank P=0.039), lower all-cause mortality (19.0% vs. 12.3%, log-rank P=0.035), and lower incidence of composite MACE (25.9% vs. 16.9%, adjusted hazard ratio, 0.50; 95% confidence interval: 0.31-0.80, P=0.004) compared with the dual group with no differences in MI and TVR. Conclusions: Triple anti-platelet therapy seems to be superior to dual anti-platelet therapy in patients with AMI who had no-reflow phenomenon during PCI.
PMID: 23986083 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]