Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (Aug 2023)

Impact of Complete Revascularization on Development of Heart Failure in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome and Multivessel Disease: A Subanalysis of the CORALYS Registry

  • Francesco Bruno,
  • Giorgio Marengo,
  • Ovidio De Filippo,
  • Wojciech Wanha,
  • Sergio Leonardi,
  • Sergio Raposeiras Roubin,
  • Enrico Fabris,
  • Maja Popovic,
  • Giuseppe Giannino,
  • Alessandra Truffa,
  • Zenon Huczek,
  • Nicola Gaibazzi,
  • Alfonso Ielasi,
  • Bernardo Cortese,
  • Andrea Borin,
  • Iván J. Núñez‐Gil,
  • Daniele Melis,
  • Fabrizio Ugo,
  • Matteo Bianco,
  • Lucia Barbieri,
  • Federico Marchini,
  • Piotr Desperak,
  • Claudio Montalto,
  • Maria Melendo‐Viu,
  • Edoardo Elia,
  • Massimo Mancone,
  • Andrea Buono,
  • Marcos Ferrandez‐Escarabajal,
  • Nuccia Morici,
  • Marco Scaglione,
  • Domenico Tuttolomondo,
  • Gennaro Sardella,
  • Mariusz Gasior,
  • Maciej Mazurek,
  • Guglielmo Gallone,
  • Beniamino Pagliaro,
  • Clara Lopiano,
  • Gianluca Campo,
  • Wojciech Wojakowski,
  • Emad Abu‐Assi,
  • Gianfranco Sinagra,
  • Gaetano Maria De Ferrari,
  • Fabrizio D'Ascenzo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.028475
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 15

Abstract

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Background The impact of complete revascularization (CR) on the development of heart failure (HF) in patients with acute coronary syndrome and multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention remains to be elucidated. Methods and Results Consecutive patients with acute coronary syndrome with multivessel coronary artery disease from the CORALYS (Incidence and Predictors of Heart Failure After Acute Coronary Syndrome) registry were included. Incidence of first hospitalization for HF or cardiovascular death was the primary end point. Patients were stratified according to completeness of coronary revascularization. Of 14 699 patients in the CORALYS registry, 5054 presented with multivessel disease. One thousand four hundred seventy‐three (29.2%) underwent CR, while 3581 (70.8%) did not. Over 5 years follow‐up, CR was associated with a reduced incidence of the primary end point (adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 0.66 [95% CI, 0.51–0.85]), first HF hospitalization (adjusted HR, 0.67 [95% CI, 0.49–0.90]) along with all‐cause death and cardiovascular death alone (adjusted HR, 0.74 [95% CI, 0.56–0.97] and HR, 0.56 [95% CI, 0.38–0.84], respectively). The results were consistent in the propensity‐score matching population and in inverse probability treatment weighting analysis. The benefit of CR was consistent across acute coronary syndrome presentations (HR, 0.59 [95% CI, 0.39–0.89] for ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction and HR, 0.71 [95% CI, 0.50–0.99] for non‐ST‐elevation acute coronary syndrome) and in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction >40% (HR, 0.52 [95% CI, 0.37–0.72]), while no benefit was observed in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤40% (HR, 0.77 [95% CI, 0.37–1.10], P for interaction 0.04). Conclusions CR after acute coronary syndrome reduced the risk of first hospitalization for HF and cardiovascular death, as well as first HF hospitalization, and cardiovascular and overall death both in patients with ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction and non‐ST‐elevation acute coronary syndrome. Registration URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT 04895176.

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