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. 2023 Jul 1;28:210. doi: 10.1186/s40001-023-01189-1

Table 3.

Comparison of the angiographic and procedural data between patients who had emergency left main (LM) vs. non-emergency LM revascularization

Overall, n = 2138 Emergent LM revascularization n = 460 (21.5%) P-Value Non-emergent LM revascularization n = 1678 (78.5%) P Value
PCI (n = 264) CABG (n = 196) PCI (n = 958) CABG (n = 720)
Angiographic characteristics
 Medina classification, n (%)  < 0.001  < 0.001
 1,1,1 760 (35.5%) 74 (28.03%) 62 (31.63%) 0.402 356 (37.16%) 268 (37.22%) 0.979
 1,0,1 162 (7.6%) 11 (4.17%) 28 (14.29%)  < 0.001 37 (3.86%) 86 (11.94%)  < 0.001
 0,1,1 393 (18.4%) 79 (29.92%) 45 (22.96%) 0.096 153 (15.97%) 116 (16.11%) 0.938
 1,1,0 402 (18.8%) 60 (22.73%) 11 (5.61%)  < 0.001 250 (26.10%) 81 (11.25%)  < 0.001
 1,0,0 202 (9.4%) 20 (7.58%) 23 (11.73%) 0.130 96 (10.02%) 81 (11.25%) 0.417
 0,1,0 160 (7.5%) 11 (4.17%) 19 (9.69%) 0.016 45 (4.70%) 85 (11.81%)  < 0.001
 0,0,1 59 (2.7%) 9 (3.41%) 8 (4.08%) 0.689 21 (2.19%) 21 (2.92%) 0.347
Lesion characteristics
 Isolated left main disease, n (%) 138 (6.5%) 22 (8.3%) 12 (6.1%)  < 0.001 81 (8.5%) 23 (3.2%)  < 0.001
 LM + (triple-vessel disease), n (%) 1202 (56.2%) 98 (37.1%) 124 (63.3%)  < 0.001 481 (50.2%) 499 (69.3%)  < 0.001
 LM + (LAD and LCx), n (%) 327 (15.3%) 50 (18.9%) 27 (13.8%)  < 0.001 138 (14.4%) 112 (15.6%)  < 0.001
 LM + [RCA and (LAD or LCx)], n (%) 139 (6.5%) 20 (7.6%) 25 (12.8%)  < 0.001 44 (4.6%) 50 (6.9%)  < 0.001
 LM + LAD, n (%) 287 (13.4%) 63 (23.9%) 8 (4.1%)  < 0.001 188 (19.6%) 28 (3.9%)  < 0.001
 LM + LCx, n (%) 35 (1.6%) 10 (3.8%) 0 (0.0%)  < 0.001 20 (2.1%) 5 (0.7%)  < 0.001
 LM + RCA, n (%) 10 (0.5%) 1 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%) 0.99 6 (0.6%) 3 (0.4%) 0.740
SYNTAX score  < 0.001  < 0.001
 Low (≤ 22), n (%) 430 (20.2%) 81 (30.68%) 18 (9.18%)  < 0.001 223 (23.30%) 108 (15.17%)  < 0.001
 Intermediate (23–32), n (%) 1107 (52.0%) 104 (39.39%) 83 (42.35%) 0.524 577 (60.29%) 343 (48.17%)  < 0.001
 High (≥ 33), n (%) 592 (27.8%) 79 (29.92%) 95 (48.47%)  < 0.001 157 (16.41%) 261 (36.66%)  < 0.001
 SYNTAX score, median (IQR) 28 (24–33) 28 (22–33) 32 (25–37)  < 0.001 28 (23–32) 29 (25–35)  < 0.001
Lesion location
 Ostial/shaft only, n (%) 536 (25.1%) 51 (19.32%) 59 (30.10%) 0.007 184 (19.21%) 242 (33.61%)  < 0.001
 Distal bifurcation, n (%) 1602 (74.9%) 213 (80.68%) 137 (69.90%) 0.007 774 (80.79%) 478 (66.39%)  < 0.001
Procedure
 Intra-aortic ballon pump, n (%) 200 (9.4%) 62 (23.48%) 52 (26.53%) 0.454 36 (3.76%) 50 (6.94%) 0.003
 Impella, n (%) 14 (0.7%) 6 (2.27%) 1 (0.51%) 0.247 6 (0.63%) 1 (0.14%) 0.250

CABG: coronary artery bypass graft surgery, PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention, LM: left main, LAD: left anterior descending, LCX: left circumflex, RCA: right coronary, SYNTAX: The SYNergy between percutaneous coronary intervention with TAXus and cardiac surgery, IQR: interquartile range