{"title":"Risk Prediction in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Solving the Last Mile Problem.","authors":"Alexander C Fanaroff, Tracy Y Wang","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e012262"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mandeep Singh, Rajiv Gulati, Bradley R Lewis, Zhaoliang Zhou, Mohamad Alkhouli, Paul Friedman, Malcolm R Bell
{"title":"Multimorbidity and Mortality Models to Predict Complications Following Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.","authors":"Mandeep Singh, Rajiv Gulati, Bradley R Lewis, Zhaoliang Zhou, Mohamad Alkhouli, Paul Friedman, Malcolm R Bell","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous percutaneous coronary intervention risk models were focused on single outcome, such as mortality or bleeding, etc, limiting their applicability. Our objective was to develop contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention risk models that not only determine in-hospital mortality but also predict postprocedure bleeding, acute kidney injury, and stroke from a common set of variables.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We built risk models using logistic regression from first percutaneous coronary intervention for any indication per patient (n=19 322, 70.6% with acute coronary syndrome) using the Mayo Clinic registry from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2016. Approval for the current study was obtained from the Mayo Foundation Institutional Review Board. Patients with missing outcomes (n=4183) and those under 18 (n=10) were removed resulting in a sample of 15 129. We built both models that included procedural and angiographic variables (Models A) and precatheterization model (Models B).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Death, bleeding, acute kidney injury, and stroke occurred in 247 (1.6%), 650 (4.3%), 1184 (7.8%), and 67 (0.4%), respectively. The C statistics from the test dataset for models A were 0.92, 0.70, 0.77, and 0.71 and for models B were 0.90, 0.67, 0.76, and 0.71 for in-hospital death, bleeding, acute kidney injury, and stroke, respectively. Bootstrap analysis indicated that the models were not overfit to the available dataset. The probabilities estimated from the models matched the observed data well, as indicated by the calibration curves. The models were robust across many subgroups, including women, elderly, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, and diabetes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The new risk scoring models based on precatheterization variables and models including procedural and angiographic variables accurately predict in-hospital mortality, bleeding, acute kidney injury, and stroke. The ease of its application will provide useful prognostic and therapeutic information to both patients and physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e011540"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40634808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter by Zaghloul et al Regarding Article, \"Ischemic Events Occur Early in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Are Reduced With Cangrelor: Findings From CHAMPION PHOENIX\".","authors":"Sheref Zaghloul, Nishil Patel, Mahmood Ahmad","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e012098"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alberto Alperi, Paul Guedeney, Eric Horlick, Luis Nombela-Franco, Xavier Freixa, Isaac Pascual, Jules Mesnier, Christine Houde, Lusine Abrahamyan, Gilles Montalescot, Josep Rodés-Cabau
{"title":"Transcatheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Older Patients With Cryptogenic Thromboembolic Events.","authors":"Alberto Alperi, Paul Guedeney, Eric Horlick, Luis Nombela-Franco, Xavier Freixa, Isaac Pascual, Jules Mesnier, Christine Houde, Lusine Abrahamyan, Gilles Montalescot, Josep Rodés-Cabau","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011652","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The main randomized trials evaluating patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure after a presumed PFO-associated stroke excluded patients older than 60 years. We aimed to evaluate the early- and long-term clinical outcomes of transcatheter PFO closure in older (>60 years) patients with a cryptogenic ischemic event.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a multicenter study including consecutive patients older than 60 years (mean age, 67±5 years) who had a PFO closure following a presumed PFO-related ischemic event. Patients ≤60 years old (mean age, 44±10 years) served as the control group. The primary end point was the occurrence of stroke, transient ischemic attack, or peripheral embolism over the follow-up period. New-onset atrial fibrillation was a secondary end point.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 388 and 883 patients >60 and ≤60 years old were included, respectively. Procedural success rate was high (99.9%), and procedural-related complications low (<2%) in both groups. After a median follow-up of 3 (1-8) years, older patients exhibited an incidence of stroke/transient ischemic attack/peripheral embolism of 1.6 events per 100 patient-years (stroke: 0.6 events per 100 patient-years), lower than that expected according to the risk of paradoxical embolism score (observed-to-expected ratio, 0.31 [95% CI, 0.11-0.91]). However, the event rate in older patients was higher than that observed in their younger counterparts (incidence rate ratio, 4.7 [95% CI, 2.36-9.8]). De novo atrial fibrillation after the procedure was more frequent in older patients (2.66 per 100 patient-years versus 0.49 per 100 patient-years, <i>P</i><0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients older than 60 years with a presumed PFO-related ischemic event, PFO closure was safe and associated with a relatively low incidence of recurrent ischemic events after a median follow-up of 3 years compared with historical cohorts of patients who did not undergo PFO closure. However, a higher risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events was observed in older patients compared to their younger counterparts. Randomized trials are warranted in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e011652"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40239449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew A Cavender, Robert A Harrington, Deepak L Bhatt
{"title":"Response by Cavender et al to Letter Regarding Article, \"Ischemic Events Occur Early in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Are Reduced With Cangrelor: Findings From CHAMPION PHOENIX\".","authors":"Matthew A Cavender, Robert A Harrington, Deepak L Bhatt","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e012222"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth A Magnuson, Khaja Chinnakondepalli, Katherine Vilain, Patrick W Serruys, Joseph F Sabik, A Pieter Kappetein, Gregg W Stone, David J Cohen
{"title":"Cost-Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Bypass Surgery for Patients With Left Main Disease: Results From the EXCEL Trial.","authors":"Elizabeth A Magnuson, Khaja Chinnakondepalli, Katherine Vilain, Patrick W Serruys, Joseph F Sabik, A Pieter Kappetein, Gregg W Stone, David J Cohen","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.011981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.011981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The EXCEL trial (Evaluation of XIENCE Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Effectiveness of Left Main Revascularization) demonstrated in patients with left main coronary artery disease, no significant difference between coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents for the composite end point of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction at 5 years. However, all-cause mortality at 5 years was higher with PCI. Long-term cost-effectiveness of these 2 strategies has heretofore not been evaluated.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From 2010 to 2014, 1905 patients with left main coronary artery disease were randomized to CABG (n=957) or PCI (n=948). Costs ($2019) were assessed over 5 years using resource-based costing and Medicare reimbursement rates. Health utilities were assessed using the EuroQOL 5-dimension questionnaire. Five-year EXCEL data in combination with US lifetables were used to develop a Markov model to evaluate lifetime cost-effectiveness. An incremental cost-effectiveness ratio <$50 000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained was considered highly cost-effective.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Index revascularization procedure costs were $4,850/patient higher with CABG, and total costs for the index hospitalization were $17 610/patient higher with CABG ($32 297 versus $19 687, <i>P</i><0.001). Cumulative 5-year costs were $20 449/patient higher with CABG. CABG was projected to increase lifetime costs by $21 551 while increasing quality-adjusted life expectancy by 0.49 QALYs, yielding an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $44 235/QALY. In a post hoc sensitivity analysis using mortality hazard ratios from a meta-analysis of all randomized CABG versus PCI in left main disease trials, the gain associated with CABG was 0.08 to 0.14 QALYs, resulting in an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $139 775 to $232 710/QALY gained.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Based on data from the EXCEL trial, CABG is an economically attractive revascularization strategy compared with PCI over a lifetime horizon for patients with significant left main coronary artery disease. However, this conclusion is sensitive to the long-term mortality rates with the 2 strategies, and CABG is no longer highly cost-effective when substituting the pooled treatment effect from the 4 major PCI versus CABG trials for left main disease.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.</p><p><strong>Clinicaltrials: </strong>gov; Unique identifier: NCT01205776.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e011981"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40525100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pulmonary Vein Atresia: Is There Hope for a Good Outcome?","authors":"V Vivian Dimas","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.122.012172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e012172"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40141058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jay D Patel, Mansi Mandhani, Rosemary Gray, Joelle Pettus, Courtney E McCracken, Amanda Thomas, Holly Bauser-Heaton, Dennis W Kim, Christopher J Petit
{"title":"Transcatheter Recanalization of Atretic Pulmonary Veins in Infants and Children.","authors":"Jay D Patel, Mansi Mandhani, Rosemary Gray, Joelle Pettus, Courtney E McCracken, Amanda Thomas, Holly Bauser-Heaton, Dennis W Kim, Christopher J Petit","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011351","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pulmonary vein stenosis is a progressive disease associated with a high rate of mortality in children. If left untreated, myofibroblastic proliferation can lead to pulmonary vein atresia (PVA). In our experience, transcatheter recanalization has emerged as a favorable interventional option. We sought to determine the acute success rate of recanalization of atretic pulmonary veins and mid-term outcomes of individual veins after recanalization.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We reviewed all patients with PVA at our institution between 2008 and 2020 diagnosed by either catheterization or cardiac computed tomography. All veins with successful recanalization were reviewed and procedural success rate and patency rate were noted. Competing risk analysis was performed to demonstrate outcomes of individual atretic veins longitudinally.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between 2008 and 2020, our institution diagnosed and treated 131 patients with pulmonary vein stenosis. Of these, 61 patients developed atresia of at least one pulmonary vein. In total, there were 97 atretic pulmonary veins within this group. Successful recanalization was accomplished in 47/97 (48.5%) atretic veins. No atretic pulmonary veins were successfully recanalized before 2012. The majority of veins were recanalized between 2017 and 2020-39/56 (70%). The most common intervention after recanalization was drug-eluting stent placement. At 2-year follow-up 42.6% of recanalized veins (20.6% of all atretic veins) remained patent with a median of 4 reinterventions per person.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Transcatheter recanalization of PVA can result in successful reestablishment of flow to affected pulmonary veins in many cases. Drug-eluting stent implantation was the most common intervention performed immediately post-recanalization. Vein patency was maintained in 42.6% of patients at 2-year follow-up from recanalization with appropriate surveillance and reintervention. Overall, only a small portion of atretic pulmonary veins underwent successful recanalization with maintained vessel patency at follow-up. Irrespective of successful recanalization, there was no detectable survival difference between the more recently treated PVA cohort and non-PVA cohort.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e011351"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40141059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short-Term Postoperative Use of Rivaroxaban to Prevent Radial Artery Occlusion After Transradial Coronary Procedure: The RESTORE Randomized Trial.","authors":"Dongjie Liang, Qingcheng Lin, Qianli Zhu, Xiaodong Zhou, Ying Fang, Liangguo Wang, Guangze Xiang, Kenneth I Zheng, Weijian Huang, Peiren Shan","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011555","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adequate procedural anticoagulation is crucial for radial artery occlusion (RAO) prevention in patients undergoing transradial access coronary catheterization, although the effect of postprocedural anticoagulation lack thorough investigation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of short-term postoperative anticoagulation with rivaroxaban for 24 hours and 1-month RAO prevention in patients who received transradial coronary procedures.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 382 patients were randomized to receive either placebo (control group) or rivaroxaban 10 mg once daily for a period of 7 days (rivaroxaban group) to evaluate the effect of the rivaroxaban in the prevention of 24 hours and 1-month RAO assessed by Doppler ultrasound.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was no significant difference in the incidence of 24-hour RAO (8.9% versus 11.5%; <i>P</i>=0.398) between the rivaroxaban group and control group (odds ratio, 0.75 [95% CI, 0.39-1.46]; <i>P</i>=0.399). In contrast, the 1-month RAO (3.8% versus 11.5%; <i>P</i>=0.011) was significantly reduced in patients who received rivaroxaban as compared with those who did placebo (odds ratio, 0.22 [95% CI, 0.08-0.65]; <i>P</i>=0.006). For patients with 24-hour RAO, the rivaroxaban group was associated with higher recanalization rate of the radial artery (69.2% versus 30.0%; <i>P</i>=0.027) compared with the control group. No significant differences can be observed between the 2 groups for access-site complications or bleeding events.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Short-term postoperative anticoagulation with rivaroxaban did not reduce the rate of 24-hour RAO but improved 1-month RAO, because of higher recanalization of the radial artery. However, larger clinical trials are needed to prove our results.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.chictr.org.cn; Unique identifier: ChiCTR1900026974.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e011555"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40314983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaling Han, Bimmer E Claessen, Shao-Liang Chen, Qiu Chunguang, Yujie Zhou, Yawei Xu, Lin Hailong, Jiyan Chen, Wu Qiang, Ruiyan Zhang, Suxin Luo, Yongjun Li, Jianhua Zhu, Xianxian Zhao, Xiang Cheng, Jian'an Wang, Xi Su, Jianhong Tao, Yingxian Sun, Geng Wang, Yi Li, Liya Bian, Ridhima Goel, Samantha Sartori, Zhongjie Zhang, Dominick J Angiolillo, David J Cohen, C Michael Gibson, Adnan Kastrati, Mitchell Krucoff, Shamir R Mehta, E Magnus Ohman, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Yuqi Liu, George Dangas, Samin Sharma, Usman Baber, Roxana Mehran
{"title":"Ticagrelor With or Without Aspirin in Chinese Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A TWILIGHT China Substudy.","authors":"Yaling Han, Bimmer E Claessen, Shao-Liang Chen, Qiu Chunguang, Yujie Zhou, Yawei Xu, Lin Hailong, Jiyan Chen, Wu Qiang, Ruiyan Zhang, Suxin Luo, Yongjun Li, Jianhua Zhu, Xianxian Zhao, Xiang Cheng, Jian'an Wang, Xi Su, Jianhong Tao, Yingxian Sun, Geng Wang, Yi Li, Liya Bian, Ridhima Goel, Samantha Sartori, Zhongjie Zhang, Dominick J Angiolillo, David J Cohen, C Michael Gibson, Adnan Kastrati, Mitchell Krucoff, Shamir R Mehta, E Magnus Ohman, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Yuqi Liu, George Dangas, Samin Sharma, Usman Baber, Roxana Mehran","doi":"10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.120.009495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.120.009495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The risk/benefit tradeoff of dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention may vary in East Asian patients as compared with their non-East Asian counterparts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized TWILIGHT trial (Ticagrelor With Aspirin or Alone in High-Risk Patients After Coronary Intervention) enrolled patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention. After 3 months of treatment with ticagrelor plus aspirin, event-free and adherent patients remained on ticagrelor and were randomly assigned to receive aspirin or placebo for 1 year. The primary end point was Bleeding Academic Research Consortium type 2, 3, or 5 bleeding; the key secondary end point was the first occurrence of death from any cause, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 9006 enrolled and 7119 randomized patients in TWILIGHT, 1169 patients (13.0%) were enrolled at 27 Chinese sites in this prespecified substudy, of whom 1028 (14.4%) patients were randomized after 3 months. The incidence of the primary end point was 6.2% in the ticagrelor+aspirin group versus 3.5% in the ticagrelor+placebo group between randomization and 1 year (hazard ratio, 0.56 [95% CI, 0.31-0.99]; <i>P</i>=0.048). The key secondary end point occurred in 3.4% of patients in the ticagrelor+aspirin group versus 2.4% in the ticagrelor+placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.70 [95% CI, 0.33-1.46]; <i>P</i>=0.34). There was no interaction between the region of randomization (China versus the rest of the world) and randomized treatment assignment in terms of the primary or key secondary end points.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Ticagrelor monotherapy significantly reduced clinically relevant bleeding without increasing ischemic events as compared with ticagrelor plus aspirin in Chinese patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>URL: https://www.</p><p><strong>Clinicaltrials: </strong>gov; Unique identifier: NCT02270242.</p>","PeriodicalId":516631,"journal":{"name":"Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions","volume":" ","pages":"e009495"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40314984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}