A Meta-Analysis of 3,773 Patients Treated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Surgery for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 739-747

  Naik, Hursh ^a   White, Anthony J ^a   Chakravarty, Tarun ^a   Forrester, James ^a   Fontana, Gregory ^a   Kar, Saibal ^a   Shah, Prediman K ^a   Weiss, Robert E ^b   Makkar, Raj ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery bypass surgery; coronary artery disease; left main coronary artery; stent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT MAIN CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68749105876     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Cohen M.V., and Gorlin R. Main left coronary artery disease. Clinical experience from 1964-1974. Circulation 52 (1975) 275-285
2. Takaro T., Hultgren H.N., Lipton M.J., and Detre K.M. The VA cooperative randomized study of surgery for coronary arterial occlusive disease II. Subgroup with significant left main lesions. Circulation 54 (1976) III107-III117
3. The Veterans Administration Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Cooperative Study Group. Eleven-year survival in the Veterans Administration randomized trial of coronary bypass surgery for stable angina. N Engl J Med 311 (1984) 1333-1339
4. Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS): a randomized trial of coronary artery bypass surgery. Survival data. Circulation 68 (1983) 939-950
5. Taylor H.A., Deumite N.J., Chaitman B.R., Davis K.B., Killip T., and Rogers W.J. Asymptomatic left main coronary artery disease in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry. Circulation 79 (1989) 1171-1179
6. Varnauskas E. Twelve-year follow-up of survival in the randomized European Coronary Surgery Study. N Engl J Med 319 (1988) 332-337
7. Caracciolo E.A., Davis K.B., Sopko G., et al. Comparison of surgical and medical group survival in patients with left main coronary artery disease. Long-term CASS experience. Circulation 91 (1995) 2325-2334
8. Chaitman B.R., Fisher L.D., Bourassa M.G., et al. Effect of coronary bypass surgery on survival patterns in subsets of patients with left main coronary artery disease. Report of the Collaborative Study in Coronary Artery Surgery (CASS). Am J Cardiol 48 (1981) 765-777
9. Yusuf S., Zucker D., Peduzzi P., et al. Effect of coronary artery bypass graft surgery on survival: overview of 10-year results from randomised trials by the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Trialists Collaboration. Lancet 344 (1994) 563-570
10. Smith Jr. S.C., Feldman T.E., Hirshfeld Jr. J.W., et al., American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Writing Committee to Update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 guideline update for percutaneous coronary intervention-summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/SCAI Writing Committee to Update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention). J Am Coll Cardiol 47 (2006) 216-235
11. Silber S., Albertsson P., Aviles F.F., et al., Task Force for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the European Society of Cardiology. Guidelines for percutaneous coronary interventions. The Task Force for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur Heart J 26 (2005) 804-847
12. Biondi-Zoccai G.G., Lotrionte M., Moretti C., et al. A collaborative systematic review and meta-analysis on 1,278 patients undergoing percutaneous drug-eluting stenting for unprotected left main coronary artery disease. Am Heart J 155 (2008) 274-283
13. Seung K.B., Park D.W., Kim Y.H., et al. Stents versus coronary-artery bypass grafting for left main coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med 358 (2008) 1781-1792
14. White A.J., Kedia G., Mirocha J.M., et al. Comparison of coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous drug-eluting stent implantation for treatment of left main coronary artery stenosis. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 1 (2008) 236-245
15. Chieffo A., Morici N., Maisano F., et al. Percutaneous treatment with drug-eluting stent implantation versus bypass surgery for unprotected left main stenosis: a single-center experience. Circulation 113 (2006) 2542-2547
16. Buszman P.E., Kiesz S.R., Bochenek A., et al. Acute and late outcomes of unprotected left main stenting in comparison with surgical revascularization. J Am Coll Cardiol 51 (2008) 538-545
17. Wu C., Hannan E.L., Walford G., and Faxon D.P. Utilization and outcomes of unprotected left main coronary artery stenting and coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Ann Thorac Surg 86 (2008) 1153-1159
18. Brener S.J., Galla J.M., Bryant III R., Sabik III J.F., and Ellis S.G. Comparison of percutaneous versus surgical revascularization of severe unprotected left main coronary stenosis in matched patients. Am J Cardiol 101 (2008) 169-172
19. Makikallio T.H., Niemela M., Kervinen K., et al. Coronary angioplasty in drug eluting stent era for the treatment of unprotected left main stenosis compared to coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Med 40 (2008) 437-443
20. Serruys PW. SYNTAX trial: a randomized trial of CABG vs. PCI for the treatment of 3 vessel disease or unprotected left main disease-end points in the left main subset. Presented at: Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT); New York, NY: September 10, 2008.
21. Palmerini T., Marzocchi A., Marrozzini C., et al. Comparison between coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis (the Bologna Registry). Am J Cardiol 98 (2006) 54-59
22. Sanmartin M., Baz J.A., Claro R., et al. Comparison of drug-eluting stents versus surgery for unprotected left main coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 100 (2007) 970-973
23. Lau J., Ioannidis J.P., and Schmid C.H. Quantitative synthesis in systematic reviews. Ann Intern Med 127 (1997) 820-826
24. DerSimonian R., and Laird N. Meta-analysis in clinical trials. Control Clin Trials 7 (1986) 177-188
25. Team RDC (2006). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. http://www.R-project.org Accessed January 10, 2009
26. Hsu J.T., Chu C.M., Chang S.T., Kao C.L., and Chung C.M. Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass graft surgery for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis: in-hospital and one year outcome after emergent and elective treatments. Int Heart J 49 (2008) 355-370
27. Palmerini T., Barlocco F., Santarelli A., et al. A comparison between coronary artery bypass grafting surgery and drug eluting stent for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery disease in elderly patients (aged > or =75 years). Eur Heart J 28 (2007) 2714-2719
28. Rodes-Cabau J., Deblois J., Bertrand O.F., et al. Nonrandomized comparison of coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery disease in octogenarians. Circulation 118 (2008) 2374-2381
29. Parsonnet V., Dean D., and Bernstein A.D. A method of uniform stratification of risk for evaluating the results of surgery in acquired adult heart disease. Circulation 79 (1989) I3-I12
30. Kim Y.H., Ahn J.M., Park D.W., et al. EuroSCORE as a predictor of death and myocardial infarction after unprotected left main coronary stenting. Am J Cardiol 98 (2006) 1567-1570
31. Raja S.G., and Berg G.A. Safety of drug eluting stents: current concerns and controversies. Curr Drug Saf 2 (2007) 212-219
32. Daemen J., Boersma E., Flather M., et al. Long-term safety and efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting and coronary artery bypass surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis with 5-year patient-level data from the ARTS, ERACI-II, MASS-II, and SoS trials. Circulation 118 (2008) 1146-1154
33. Anstrom K.J., Kong D.F., Shaw L.K., et al. Long-term clinical outcomes following coronary stenting. Arch Intern Med 168 (2008) 1647-1655
34. Takagi H., Kawai N., and Umemoto T. Stenting versus coronary artery bypass grafting for unprotected left main coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis of comparative studies. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 137 (2009) e54-e57
35. Lee M.S., Kapoor N., Jamal F., et al. Comparison of coronary artery bypass surgery with percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents for unprotected left main coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 47 (2006) 864-870
36. Price M.J., Cristea E., Sawhney N., et al. Serial angiographic follow-up of sirolimus-eluting stents for unprotected left main coronary artery revascularization. J Am Coll Cardiol 47 (2006) 871-877
37. Agostoni P., Valgimigli M., Van Mieghem C.A., et al. Comparison of early outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected left main coronary artery disease in the drug-eluting stent era with versus without intravascular ultrasonic guidance. Am J Cardiol 95 (2005) 644-647
38. van Gaal W.J., Ponnuthurai F.A., Selvanayagam J., et al. The Syntax score predicts peri-procedural myocardial necrosis during percutaneous coronary intervention. Int J Cardiol 135 (2009) 60-65