Table 3. Management and procedural outcomes.
Patients, n | Total | Type 1 | Type 2A | Type 2B | Type 3 | Type 4 | p-value | |
302 (100) | 52 (17.2) | 80 (26.5) | 69 (22.8) | 20 (6.6) | 81 (26.8) | |||
Vascular access (n=264) | Radial | 218 (82.6) | 33 (70.2) | 54 (79.4) | 56 (90.3) | 17 (94.4) | 58 (84.1) | 0.042 |
Femoral | 46 (17.4) | 14 (29.8) | 14 (20.6) | 6 (9.7) | 1 (5.6) | 11 (15.9) | 0.026 | |
Management (first treatment choice) | PCI | 100 (33.1) | 23 (45.1) | 18 (22.5) | 9 (13) | 7 (35) | 43 (53.8) | <0.001 |
CABG | 4 (1.3) | 2 (3.4) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 0.704 | |
Conservative | 198 (65.6) | 27 (51) | 61 (76.3) | 59 (85.5) | 13 (65) | 37 (46.3) | <0.001 | |
PCI (n=100) | N=23 | N=18 | N=9 | N=7 | N=43 | |||
Only guidewire | 13 (13) | 2 (8.7) | 1 (5.6) | 2 (22.2) | 1 (14.3) | 12 (27.9) | 0.228 | |
Predilatation | 42 (42) | 5 (21.7) | 8 (44.4) | 3 (33.3) | 4 (57.1) | 22 (51.2) | 0.127 | |
Cutting balloon | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Stenting* | 78 (78) | 20 (87) | 15 (57.7) | 6 (48.2) | 6 (85.7) | 31 (72.1) | 0.248 | |
TIMI flow post procedure | 3 | 78 (78) | 19 (82.6) | 14 (77.7) | 7 (77.8) | 7 (100.0) | 23 (54.4) | 0.004 |
<3 | 22 (22) | 4 (17.4) | 4 (22.2) | 2 (22.2) | 0 | 20 (45.6) | ||
Successful PCI | Yes | 78 (78) | 19 (82.6) | 17 (94.4) | 7 (77.8) | 6 (85.7) | 29 (67.4) | 0.558 |
Data are presented as means±SDs for continuous variables and numbers (%) for categorical variables. *These include 50 drug-eluting stents, 20 bare metal stents and 8 bioresorbable scaffolds. CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention |