Volume 71, Issue 7 pp. 896-906
Coronary Artery Disease

Impact of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors on outcomes of diabetic patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions using sirolimus-eluting stents

Eugenia Nikolsky

Eugenia Nikolsky

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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David R. Holmes

David R. Holmes

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

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Roxana Mehran

Corresponding Author

Roxana Mehran

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Columbia University Medical Center, The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 55 E. 59th St., 6th Floor, New York City, NY 10022Search for more papers by this author
George Dangas

George Dangas

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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Erick Schampaert

Erick Schampaert

Hopital Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada

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Marie-Claude Morice

Marie-Claude Morice

Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France

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Joachim Schofer

Joachim Schofer

Centre for Cardiology and Vascular Intervention, Hamburg, Germany

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J. Eduardo Sousa

J. Eduardo Sousa

Institute Dante Pazzanese, São Paulo, Brazil

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Martin Fahy

Martin Fahy

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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Yingbo Na

Yingbo Na

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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Dennis J. Donohoe

Dennis J. Donohoe

Cordis Corporation, Warren, NJ, USA

Dr. Donohoe is a full-time employee of Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Moses owns common stock in and has served as a consultant to and speaker for Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Leon owns equity in, has received research grants from, and serves as a consultant to Johnson & Johnson.

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Jeffrey W. Moses

Jeffrey W. Moses

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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Martin B. Leon

Martin B. Leon

Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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First published: 22 May 2008
Citations: 6

Abstract

Objective:

We assessed the outcomes in diabetic patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) as a function of treatment with glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors.

Methods and Results:

Of 551 diabetic patients treated with a SES in nine trials (RAVEL, SIRIUS, E-SIRIUS, C-SIRIUS, REALITY, SVELTE, DIRECT, SIRIUS 2.25, and SIRIUS 4.0), 187 patients (33.9%) were administered GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors during PCI. GP IIb/IIIa blockade was associated with lower rates of myocardial infarction (MI) at 30 days (1.1% vs. 3.3%, P = 0.12) and at 1 year (1.1% vs. 4.7%, P = 0.04), and composite endpoint of cardiac death/MI at 1 year (2.2% vs. 6.2%, P = 0.05). Benefit from GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors was confined to 128 insulin-treated diabetics who had remarkable reduction in MI (0.0% vs. 6.3%, P = 0.04) and cardiac death/MI at 30 days (0.0% vs. 7.6%, P = 0.05) and at 1-year (0.0% vs. 13.4%, P = 0.01 and 0.0% vs. 15.7%, P = 0.0005, respectively). When treated with GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors, insulin-requiring diabetics had similar rates of 1-year death/MI when compared with the nondiabetic patients (0% vs. 4.7%, P = 0.13, respectively). There were no significant differences in outcomes as a function of GP IIb/IIIa blockade in diabetics not treated with insulin.

Conclusion:

In this analysis, outcomes of insulin requiring diabetic patients undergoing PCI with SES were considerably improved with adjunctive GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors by decreasing the rates of MI and composite endpoint of cardiac death/MI. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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