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Outcomes of patients treated with the everolimus-eluting stent versus the zotarolimus-eluting stent in a consecutive cohort of patients at a tertiary medical center
Authors Shammas N , Shammas, Nader, Jerin M, Mrad, Marogil, Henn, Dvorak, Chintalapani, Meriner
Received 22 January 2012
Accepted for publication 9 March 2012
Published 11 April 2012 Volume 2012:8 Pages 205—211
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S30122
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 3
Nicolas W Shammas, Gail A Shammas, Elie Nader, Michael Jerin, Luay Mrad, Peter Marogil, Courtney Henn, Alex Dvorak, Archana Chintalapani, Susan Meriner
Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Davenport, IA, USA
Background: In this study we compared the outcomes of the everolimus-eluting stent (EES) versus the zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) in patients treated at a tertiary medical center, with up to one year of follow-up.
Methods: Unselected consecutive patients were retrospectively recruited following stenting with the ZES (n = 197) or EES (n = 190). The first 100 consecutive patients in each cohort underwent syntax scoring. The primary endpoint of the study was target vessel failure, defined as the combined endpoint of cardiac death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, or target vessel revascularization. Secondary endpoints included target lesion revascularization, target lesion failure, acute stent thrombosis, total death, cardiac death, and non-fatal myocardial infarction.
Results: The two groups were similar, including for Syntax scores (19.6 ± 12.8 versus 20.6 ± 13.6), number of stents per patient (2.9 ± 1.9 versus 2.9 ± 2.1), and cardiovascular risk factors. By one year, the primary outcome occurred in 20.8% EES versus 26.7% ZES (P = 0.19) patients. The secondary endpoints were as follows: target lesion revascularization (8.9% versus 20.6%, P = 0.003), target vessel revascularization (18.9% versus 25.6%, P = 0.142), definite and probable stent thrombosis (0% versus 2.5%), non-fatal myocardial infarction (2.7% versus 3.6%), and mortality (3.2% versus 5.1%) for the EES versus the ZES, respectively.
Conclusion: EES had similar target vessel failure to ZES, but superior target lesion revascularization and target lesion failure at one year of follow-up in an unselected cohort of patients.
Keywords: coronary stent, drug eluting stent, zotarolimus, everolimus, outcome, target lesion revascularization, stent thrombosis
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