Table 6.
Major adverse cardiac events
| Classical crush | DK crush | P Overall classical vs. DK crush | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Without final kissing balloon | With final kissing balloon | |||
| No. of lesions | 156 | 39 | 117 | 155 | |
| Angiographic success (%) | 97·4 | 94·9 | 98·3 | 100 | 0·9 |
| Procedural success (%) | 91·1 | 87·2 | 92·3 | 96·1 | 0·3 |
| In hospital MACE (%) | 6·4 | 7·7 | 5·9 | 4·1 | 0·9 |
| Cardiac death | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Q wave MI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Non-Q MI | 5·8 | 7·7 | 5·9 | 4·1 | 0·5 |
| TLR | 0·6 | 2·6 | 0 | 0 | 0·5 |
| TVR | 0·6 | 2·6 | 0 | 0 | 0·5 |
| Stent thrombosis | 0·6 | 2·6 | 0 | 0·7 | 0·7 |
| 8-month MACE (%) | |||||
| Cumulative | 24·4 | 35·9* | 19·7 | 11·4** | 0·02 |
| Cardiac death | 1·7 | 2·5 | 2·5 | 0·6 | 0·5 |
| Q wave MI | 3·5 | 5·1 | 0·9 | 1·2 | 0·7 |
| Non-Q MI | 11·1 | 10·2 | 8·1 | 9·1 | 0·9 |
| TLR | 18·9 | 22·6* | 17·8 | 9·0 | 0·03 |
| TVR | 21·9 | 26·5* | 20·0 | 10·3 | 0·03 |
| Stent thrombosis | 3·2 | 5·1 | 1·7 | 1·3 | 1·0 |
Abbreviations: MACE, major adverse cardiac events; MI, myocardial infarction; TLR, target lesion revascularization; TVR, target vessel revascularization; DK, double kissing.
*
P < 0·01 comparing classical crush without final kissing inflations to both classical crush with final kissing inflations as well as DK crush.
**
P < 0·05 comparing classical crush with final kissing inflations to DK crush.