Does colchicine improve outcomes in patients with acute and chronic forms of coronary artery disease?
Low-dose colchicine may be beneficial in stable CAD but not in acute MI patients already receiving intensive pharmaco-invasive therapies.
ABSTRACT: Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory drug for different inflammatory conditions and is approved for secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease, mainly based on the results of the LODOCO2 and COLCOT trials. The recently published CLEAR SYNERGY trial reported neutral results for colchicine in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, challenging the previous reported benefits of colchicine. While colchicine appeared rather safe across the different studies, the variation in efficacy may suggest that the one-size-fits-all for the treatment of acute and chronic forms of coronary artery disease may not be appropriate, and that low-dose colchicine may be beneficial as an add-on therapy in patients who are stable or recovering from acute event, and not so helpful in patients with acute myocardial infarction already receiving intensive pharmaco-invasive therapies.
Bonaventura et al. (Thu,) studied this question.