Intervenção Coronária Percutânea em Pacientes Jovens

Background: Cardiovascular disease has shown increasing occurrence rates among young people and data of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in this group are scarce. Our objective was to perform a retrospective evaluation of the profile and in-hospital clinical outcomes of young patients in this PCI registry. Methods: From 2006 to 2012, 6,288 patients were consecutively submitted to PCI, of whom 151 were 0.99), myocardial infarction (3.3% vs. 2.3%; p = 0.41) or emergency revascularization (0.6% vs. 0.03%; p = 0.56) were similar between groups. In the multivariate analysis, age and presence of functional class Killip III and IV were the variables that best explained the occurrence of MACCE. Conclusions: Patients with age < 40 years represented a small fraction of the cases in this series and had a clinical and angiographic profile different from the older patients, suggesting the need to establish primary prevention measures earlier in individuals with the observed profile.