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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2006 Nov 14;114(23):2449–2457. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.669432

Table 5.

IRA PCI Procedural and 1-Year Results

PCI
MED
Variable Baseline
(n=195)
Post-PCI
(n=195)
1 Year
(n=173)
Baseline
(n=186)
1 Year
(n=159)
TIMI grade flow
 Grade 0 155 (79.9) 12 (6.2) 22 (12.7) 155 (83.3) 57 (35.8)
 Grade 1  37 (19.1)  6 (3.1) 8 (4.6)  31 (16.7) 62 (39.0)
 Grade 2  2 (1.0) 11 (5.6) 13 (7.5)  0 (0.0) 20 (12.6)
 Grade 3  0 (0.0) 166 (85.1) 130 (75.1)  0 (0.0) 20 (12.6)
TIMI grade 2 or 3 2 (1.0) 177 (90.8) 143 (82.7) 0 40 (25.2)
 Missing 1 0 22 0 27
In-lesion
 MLD, mm* 0.002±0.02 2.1±0.8 1.5±0.9 0 0.3±0.6
 % Diameter stenosis* 99.8±2.6 34.3±23.6 52.5±26.6 100±0.4 90.2±17.4
 Late loss index 0.27±0.36
In-stent
 MLD, mm 2.7±0.6 1.7±0.9
 % Diameter stenosis 15.9±16.4 45.9±26.8
Restenosis rate % 45.7

MLD indicates minimal luminal diameter.

*

P<0.001,

P<0.0001 for 1-year PCI vs MED comparison.