Efficacy and safety of early coronary stenting for unstable angina

✍ Scribed by Shimada, Kenei ;Kawarabayashi, Takahiko ;Komatsu, Ryuushi ;Sakamoto, Tsunemori ;Shimizu, Yutaka ;Yoshikawa, Junichi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 38 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0304(199804)43:4<381::aid-ccd4>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

To determine the efficacy and safety of early coronary stenting for unstable angina, we studied 91 consecutive patients with unstable angina. Thirty-one patients underwent stenting 72 h or more after admission, and another 60 patients underwent stenting within 72 h of admission. The clinical and angiographic follow-up had been done for 6 mo. There were no differences between the baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics of both groups. The maximum balloon pressure was higher (14.1 ؎ 1.2 vs. 12.6 ؎ 0.9, P F 0.01) and the hospital stay was shorter (9.7 ؎ 2.7 vs. 18.7 ؎ 5.8 d, P F 0.0001) in the early stenting group. These two groups were similar in the clinical success rate (90.0% vs. 93.5%), without any abrupt closure, subacute thrombosis, death, myocardial infarction, or coronary bypass surgery. These findings indicate that early stenting can be useful in patients with unstable angina.