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PubMed: 32870605 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.29245
Comparing the clinical and prognostic impact of proximal versus nonproximal lesions in dominant right coronary artery ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 97(5):E646-E652
Authors: Giuseppe Femia, Amir Faour, Joseph Assad, Lokesh Sharma, Hanan Idris, Oliver Gibbs, Patrick Pender, Dominic Leung, Andrew Hopkins, Rohan Rajaratnam, Craig P Juergens, Christian Mussap, John K French, Sidney Lo
Affiliations
- Department of Cardiology, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales Medicine, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the prognostic significance of culprit lesion location in dominant right coronary artery (RCA) ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
BACKGROUND
In RCA STEMI, proximal culprit lesions have been shown to have higher rates of acute complications such as bradycardia and cardiogenic shock (CS) but data on mortality is limited.
METHODS
We retrospectively identified and analyzed data from consecutive patients with a dominant RCA STEMI who underwent either primary or rescue percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) between January 2003 and December 2016. We compared the rates of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), CS, intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), temporary cardiac pacing (TCP) and death between culprit lesions located proximal and distal to the origin of the last right ventricular (RV) marginal artery >1 mm in diameter.
RESULTS
The 939 patients were included; 599 (63.7%) had a proximal lesion and 340 (36.3%) had a nonproximal lesion. The 801 (85.3%) underwent primary PCI and 138 (14.7%) underwent rescue PCI. There was no difference in first medical contact to balloon or fibrinolysis times between the groups; p = .98 and .71. There was no significant difference in the rate of sustained VT (3.0%vs. 3.2%, p = .85) but proximal lesions were more likely to develop CS (10.9%vs. 5.8%, p = .01), require IABP (7.3%vs.2.9%, p < .01) and TCP (6.3%vs. 2.6%, p = .01). Thirty-day mortality was higher for proximal lesions (5.0%vs. 0.9%, p < .01) particularly for those with CS (35.3%vs. 10.0%, p = .05).
CONCLUSION
Culprit lesions located proximal to the origin of the last RV marginal artery had a higher rate of acute complications such as CS and mortality.
MeSH
Mortality, Myocardial Infarction, Shock, Cardiogenic, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Cardiac Catheterization, Arteries, Thrombolytic Therapy, St Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Wounds And Injuries