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Balancing the Risks of Restenosis and Stent Thrombosis in Bare-Metal Versus Drug-Eluting Stents

2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 51; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jacc.2008.01.042

1558-3597

Pallav Garg, David J. Cohen, Thomas A. Gaziano, Laura Mauri,

Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases

We sought to define what incremental risk of very late stent thrombosis (VLST) in drug-eluting stents (DES) would outweigh the restenosis benefit.Although there are robust data on the restenosis benefit of DES versus bare-metal stents (BMS), the incremental risk of stent thrombosis, a rare but serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is not known with certainty.We developed a decision analytic Markov model comparing DES versus BMS strategies for a contemporary PCI population. Procedure-related morbidity and mortality data from published reports were used to derive the model probabilities. Over a range of incremental risk and duration of risk of VLST, we identified the net benefit of DES versus BMS in terms of quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE).Under an assumption of equal stent thrombosis rates beyond 1 year, the DES strategy was superior to BMS in terms of QALE (16.262 vs. 16.248 quality-adjusted life years [QALYs], difference = 0.014). Under the alternative assumption of an incremental risk difference of 0.13%/year, the net benefit was substantially reduced (difference = 0.001 QALYs). The threshold excess risk of very late DES thrombosis compared with BMS, above which BMS would be the preferred strategy, was 0.14%/year (over 4 years of follow-up). This threshold increased as the population risk of restenosis increased and decreased as the vulnerable time window lengthened.A small absolute increase in DES thrombosis compared with BMS after 1 year (>0.14%/year) would result in BMS being the preferred strategy for the overall PCI population. Larger clinical trials with longer follow-up are needed to estimate the risk of late stent thrombosis with greater certainty for existing and new DES.