The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2020 Dec 14

DOI: 10.23736/S0021-9509.20.11620-3

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lingua: Inglese

Angiographic and clinical outcomes of patients implanted with ultrathin, biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stents versus durable polymer drug-eluting stents for percutaneous coronary intervention: an updated meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials

Chen LIAO ^{1, 2}, Sen LIAO ³, Miaoweng LIU ², Ruoxin XU ², Jinhua PENG ¹, Yiping WEI ¹,Wenxiong ZHANG ¹ ✉

¹ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China; ² Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China; ³ FuZhou Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

BACKGROUND: Whether sirolimus-eluting stents constituted with ultrathin-strut and biodegradable polymers (BP-SESs) can achieve a preferable effect over current drug-eluting stents with durable polymers (DP-DESs) remains highly controversial. The aim of this analysis based on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was to detect the clinical and angiographic differences between ultrathin (defined as a strut thickness <70 μm) BP-SESs and DP-DESs.
METHODS/MATERIALS: We searched seven databases to identify eligible articles. Late lumen loss (LLL) and target lesion failure (TLF) were assessed as the primary endpoints for angiographic and clinical outcomes, respectively.
RESULTS: Nineteen articles containing thirteen RCTs with 14801 patients were analyzed. For the 9-month angiographic outcomes, similar results were discovered between BP-SESs and DP-DESs in terms of in-stent LLL (mean difference [MD]: -0.02[-0.05, 0.01], P=0.23), in-segment LLL (MD: -0.01[-0.04, 0.03], P=0.74), in-stent minimum lumen diameter (MLD) (MD: -0.01[-0.06, 0.04], P=0.72), in-segment MLD (MD: -0.01[-0.06, 0.05], P=0.75), in-stent diameter stenosis (DS) (MD: -1.10[-3.36, 1.15], P=0.34), in-segment DS (MD: -0.78[-1.97, 0.40], P=0.20), in-stent binary restenosis (BR) (risk ratio [RR]: 2.27[0.99, 5.21], P=0.05) and in-segment BR (RR: 1.46[0.78, 2.75], P=0.24). Regarding the 12-month clinical outcomes, there was a significant decrease in TLF and a trend of a lower incidence of target vessel failure (RR: 0.89[0.78,1.01], P=0.08), myocardial infarction (MI) and target vessel MI.
CONCLUSIONS: With similar angiographic results, BP-SESs appeared to be superior to DP-DESs with better clinical prognoses, especially for female patients, patients with STEMI and ACS and patients without diabetes. More high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these results.

KEY WORDS: Meta-analysis; Biodegradable polymer; Durable polymer; Ultrathin; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Coronary artery disease