Table 1.
Data summary (number and percentage) of the patient characteristics. ISR indicates intra-stent restenosis. The other terms are acute coronary symptoms (ACS), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), left anterior descending (LAD), left circumflex artery (LCX), right coronary artery (RCA), and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). * indicates significant values at p < 0.05.
| Patients Characteristics | Non-ISR Group (15) |
ISR Group (40) |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 62 ± 2.73 | 66.5 ± 1.8 | 0.1844 |
| Gender, N (%) | male 3 (20%) | male 8 (20%) | 1 |
| female 12 (80%) | female 32 (80%) | 0.576 | |
| Risk Factors, N (%) | |||
| Smoking | 8 (53.3%) | 28 (70%) | 0.255 |
| Hypertension | 11 (73.3%) | 30 (75%) | 0.902 |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 6 (40%) | 25 (62.5%) | 0.139 |
| Diabetes Type I | 3 (20%) | 9 (22.5%) | 0.845 |
| Dyslipidemia | 12 (80%) | 28 (70%) | 0.547 |
| Clinical Data, N (%) | |||
| Angina Pectoris | 10 (66%) | 23 (57.5%) | 0.34 |
| Acute Coronary Symptoms | 3 (20%) | 16 (40.0%) | 0.382 |
| Chronic Kidney Disease | 1 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 0.103 |
| Heart Failure | 1 (7%) | 1 (2.5%) | 0.471 |
| Stent Details of the 1st PCI | |||
| N° Stenosis | 26 | 70 | |
| Affected Vessels: | |||
| LAD | 21 (80.8%) | 45 (64.3%) | 0.47 |
| LCX | 4 (15.4%) | 16 (22.8%) | 0.09 |
| RCA * | 1 (3.8%) | 9 (12.9%) | 0.04 |
| Stent Details of the 2nd PCI | |||
| N° Stent Implanted | 58 | ||
| Affected Vessels: | |||
| LAD | 31 (53.4%) | ||
| LCX | 18 (31.1%) | ||
| RCA | 9 (15.5%) | ||
| Treatments | |||
| PCI | 36 (90%) | ||
| CABG | 3 (7.5%) | ||
| Pharmacologic Treatment | 1 (2.5%) |