Why the study?
There are few data regarding patients’ characteristics and clinical outcomes in elderly patients undergoing PCI over the past few decades.
Does percutaneous coronary intervention in the DES or BMS era improve the composite of all-cause death and ACS compared to the POBA era in elderly patients aged 70-85 years?
Cohort (n=1,070)
No
Does percutaneous coronary intervention in the DES or BMS era improve the composite of all-cause death and ACS compared to the POBA era in elderly patients aged 70-85 years?
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Limited data on elderly PCI patients warrants caution in extrapolating outcomes; this study leaves open the need for larger prospective trials.
Objective: Corresponding to an increasingly aging society, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been performed in elderly patients for the past few decades. However, there is a few data regarding patients’ characteristics and clinical outcomes in the subset of patients.
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Ozaki et al. (2018) conducted a cohort in Coronary artery disease requiring percutaneous coronary intervention (n=1,070). PCI in the DES era vs. PCI in the POBA era was evaluated on Composite of all-cause death and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) within 3 years after PCI (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.51-2.06).
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