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Evidence basis fordecision- making betweencoronary artery bypass graing and percutaneous coronaryintervention
Present and future perspectives
Vasim Farooq, John D. Puskas, Patrick W. Serruys, and David P. Taggart
‘Choosing to make selective choices among competing evidence, so as to emphasize those re­sults that support a given position, while ignoring or dismissing any ndings that do not support it, is a practice known as “cherry picking” and is a hallmark of poor science or pseudo- science.’
Richard Somerville, American Climate Scientist, Testimony before the US House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 8 March 2011.
Introduction
Historically, the 15 randomized clinical trials comparing coronary artery bypass gra (CABG) surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for intervention in coronary artery disease (CAD) have been criticized for profound selection bias (‘cherry­picking’ of patients).–  e stringent clinical and angiographic­based inclusion criteria led to only 2– 12% of all screened patients actually being randomized in these trials, resulting in recruitment of mainly low risk subjects with predominant one- or two- vessel dis­ease (and a low incidence of three- vessel disease (3VD)), preserved le ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and a low incidence of dia­betes., is highly selective selection practice echoes that of a re­view of 31 antidepressant ecacy trials in 2002, demonstrating that despite the large number of trials and participants, only a minority of patients treated for depression in routine clinical were eligible for inclusion because of a large number of exclusion criteria.,
Consequently, applying these trial ndings (or meta- analyses, particularly those that mix historical with contemporary data– ) to real- world contemporary clinical practice eectively generalizes therapeutic choices to the larger population who were eectively excluded from the trials. erefore, this risks erroneous assign­ment of many patients to therapies that are actually suboptimal. Aparticularly pertinent example is a meta- analysis of the historical trials of CABG versus PCI that reported CABG to have a mor­tality benet in older rather than younger subjects; ndings that
were subsequently directly contradicted by the Synergy between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) trial where the opposite was shown.,
SYNTAX, FREEDOM, andBEST
e SYNTAX trial was designed to overcome the historical limita­tions of prior trial data comparing CABG with PCI, by incorporating an ‘all- comers’ design if the Heart Team determined ‘equivalent ana­tomical revascularization’ could be achieved between CABG and PCI (using the rst- generation drug- eluting stent (DES)), with ac­companying parallel nested CABG and PCI registries for patients deemed ineligible for randomization.–  Overall, the 5- year out­comes of SYNTAX reported that major adverse cardiac and cerebro­vascular events (MACCE) occurred in 26.9% of CABG and 37.3% of PCI patients (P <0.0001). Myocardial infarction (3.8% in CABG vs 9.7% in PCI; P <0.0001) and repeat revascularization (13.7% in CABG vs 25.9% in PCI; P <0.0001) were signicantly increased with PCI compared to CABG. However, all- cause mortality and stroke did not dier signicantly between CABG and PCI (11.4% in CABG vs 13.9% in PCI, P=0.10; and 3.7% vs 2.4%, P=0.09, respectively).
e relative benets of CABG and PCI varied according to the anatomical SYNTAX score tertiles (low 0– 22, intermediate 23– 32, high ≥33) that indicated the severity of CAD. Overall, MACCE oc­curred in 28.6% of CABG and 32.1% of PCI patients with a low (<23)
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SYNTAX score (P=0.43). With le main coronary disease MACCE occurred in 31.0% of CABG and 36.9% of PCI patients (P=0.12). Overall, in patients with intermediate (23– 32) or high (>32) ana­tomical SYNTAX scores, MACCE was signicantly increased with PCI (intermediate score:25.8% CABG vs. 36.0% PCI, P =0.008; high score:26.8% CABG vs 44.0% PCI, P <0.0001) (Fig. 9.1).
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Reproduced from Mohr FW, Morice MC, Kappetein AP, etal. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with three- vessel disease and left main coronary disease:5- year follow- up of the randomised, clinical SYNTAX trial. Lancet. 2013 Feb 23;381(9867):629– 38. doi:10.1016/ S0140- 6736(13)60141- 5 with permission from Elsevier.
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Source data from Farkouh ME, Domanski M, Sleeper LA, etal; FREEDOM Trial Investigators. Strategies for multivessel revascularization in patients with diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2012 Dec 20;367(25):2375– 84. doi:10.1056/ NEJMoa1211585.
with 3VD at 10year (28% vs 21%; HR 1.42, 95% CI 1.11– 1.81) but not in patients with le main CAD (27% vs 28%; HR 0.92, 95% CI
0.69– 1.22), p interaction=0·023.
the cardiac surgeon and the interventional cardiologist agreed could be oered equivalent anatomical revascularisation, and simi­larly equally be oered CABG or PCI on the grounds of clinical co­morbidity, were eligible for randomisation. As a result patients were nested in CABG (n- 1077, predominantly for patients where equiva­lent anatomical revascularisation between CABG and PCI could not be achieved) and PCI (n=198, predominantly for patients where the clinical co- morbidity made surgical revascularisation pro­hibitive) registries. With advances in surgical and percutaneous revascularisation techniques since SYNTAX, it may be argued that more patients would have been deemed by the heart team to be suit­able for equivalent anatomical revascularisation and hence eligible for randomisation. As a result fewer patients may have been enrolled in the nested registries. As to whether this would have impacted the outcomes of the original SYNTAX Trial is debatable.
with Diabetes Mellitus:Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease (FREEDOM) trial,, which investigated diabetic patients with multivessel disease, and the Randomized Comparison of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Everolimus- Eluting Stent Implantation in the Treatment of Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, which utilized second- generation DES in multivessel disease (rather than the rst- generation DES used in SYNTAX), have largely mirrored the ndings of SYNTAX, con­rming that in complex CAD surgical revascularization should be considered the primary revascularization strategy. In FREEDOM, at 5years, the primary composite endpoint of all- cause mortality, non­fatal myocardial infarction, or non- fatal stroke, occurred in 26.6% of PCI and 18.7% of CABG patients (P=0.005). e benet of CABG was due to dierences in rates of both myocardial infarction (13.9% in PCI vs 6.0% in CABG patients; P <0.001) and all- cause mortality (16.3% in PCI vs 10.9% in CABG patients; P=0.049). Stroke was
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more frequent in CABG patients, with 5- year rates of 2.4% in the PCI group and 5.2% in the CABG group (P=0.03) (Fig. 9.2). At 7- years extended follow- up of FREEDOM (for 943 out of 1800 pa­tients), all- cause mortality occurred in 23.7% of PCI and 18.7% of CABG patients (HR 1.32, 95% CI 0.97– 1.78; P=0.07) (Fig. 9.3).
e BEST trial demonstrated occurrence of the primary endpoint (composite of death due to myocardial infarction or target- vessel revascularization at 2years) in 11.0% of PCI patients and 7.9% of CABG patients (P=0.32 for non- inferiority). At longer- term follow­up (median, 4.6years), the primary endpoint occurred in 15.3% of PCI and 10.6% of CABG patients (HR 1.47, 95% CI 1.01– 2.13; P=0.04) (Fig. 9.4).
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Reproduced from Farkouh ME, Domanski M, Dangas GD, etal; FREEDOM Follow- On Study Investigators. Long- Term Survival Following Multivessel Revascularization in Patients With Diabetes:The FREEDOM Follow- On Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Feb 19;73(6):629– 38. doi:10.1016/ j.jacc.2018.11.001. with permission from Elsevier.
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Source data from Park SJ, Ahn JM, Kim YH, etal TK; BEST Trial Investigators. Trial of everolimus- eluting stents or bypass surgery for coronary disease. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 26;372(13):1204– 12. doi:10.1056/ NEJMoa1415447.
Anatomical complexity (SYNTAX score), clinical factors, and their impact ondecision- making
Anatomical complexity (SYNTAX score)
Based on the results of SYNTAX, the anatomical SYNTAX Score (http:// www.syntaxscore.com) has now emerged as a clinical tool to objectively determine the complexity of CAD, and guide decision­making between CABG surgery and PCI. e anatomical SYNTAX score allows a more objective assessment of the angiographic extent of CAD, compared to simple ‘eye- balling’, that continues to dom­inate contemporary clinical practice., e anatomical SYNTAX score (Fig.9.5a, b) combines a number of factors including the ana­tomical location of all coronary lesions in vessels 1.5mm in diameter or greater, their importance in supplying blood to the myocardium (‘vessel- segment weighting’ based on the Leaman score), the se­verity of the diseased coronary artery segment (i.e. obstructive or occlusive), adverse characteristics for revascularization (based on the American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association lesion classication),, the Medina classication system for bi­furcation lesions, and total occlusion characteristics from the European TOTAL Surveillance Study.
e potential value of the anatomical SYNTAX score in decision­making between CABG and PCI in complex CAD was rst rec­ognized in the 5- year follow- up of the Arterial Revascularization erapies Study (ARTS) II, that demonstrated a signicant separ­ation of clinical outcomes in patients stratied according to ana­tomical complexity of CAD (tertiles of the anatomical SYNTAX score).
Following ARTS II, the anatomical SYNTAX score was adopted in the SYNTAX trial, where it was used as a tool to force the car­diac surgeons and interventional cardiologists to systematically analyse the coronary angiogram and to specify the number of
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coronary lesions requiring treatment, their angiographic location, anatomical complexity, and to specify which coronary lesions re­quired revascularization (based on a vessel size of ≥1.5mm), be­fore agreeing that equivalent anatomical revascularization could be achieved— only then was the patient considered to be suitable for randomisation in SYNTAX, provided the surgical risk was not prohibitive.
Based on tertiles of the anatomical SYNTAX score (low 0– 22, intermediate 23– 32, high ≥33) (Fig. 9.5c), it was demonstrated that the more complex the coronary anatomy, the greater the poten­tial longer- term prognostic benet of CABG compared to PCI.  ese ndings have since been validated in multiple registries worldwide.
However, both FREEDOM, and BEST failed to show any interaction for the SYNTAX tertiles (low 0– 22, intermediate 23– 32, high ≥33) with clinical outcomes. e two most likely reasons were the exclusion of patients with more complex CAD that meant these studies were eectively underpowered to examine the eects of the anatomical SYNTAX score, compounded by the relatively short follow- up of both studies (minimum follow- up 2 years in FREEDOM and BEST compared to 5years in SYNTAX) and the subsequent early termination of BEST due to slow recruitment.,
Ongoing studies are currently using the anatomical SYNTAX score (and SYNTAX score II (that incorporates clinical factors)) in unprotected le main CAD–  and de novo 3VD.
Clinicalfactors
As was shown with anatomical complexity of CAD in the SYNTAX trial, the same scenario exists with clinical comorbidity such as dia­betes that equates to a potentially greater prognostic benet for CABG compared to PCI in complex disease, provided the risks of surgical revascularization are not prohibitive.,
Traditionally, it has been argued that provided stents can treat all obstructive coronary lesions, then outcomes between CABG and PCI would be similar, and that improvements in stent technology would mean that eventually PCI should surpass CABG., However, focusing on stent technology rather than the atherosclerotic disease process mis­understands the benets of bypass surgery (as explained subsequently).
Clinical consequences ofexcess plaque burden and/ or clinicalcomorbidity
Based on the results of SYNTAX, FREEDOM, and BEST, it may be surmised that clinical outcomes in complex CAD are primarily due to excess plaque burden and progression, and/ or clinical comorbidity, with the consequent risk of developing future vulnerable plaque(s) and myocardial infarction., A substudy of the COURAGE, trial demonstrated that the overall coronary atherosclerotic disease burden was a more consistent predictor of myocardial infarction and cardiac death compared to myocardial ischaemia alone. Furthermore, in a registry of patients with suspected CAD who underwent com­puted tomography (CT), quantication of atherosclerotic burden (lesion localization, degree of stenosis, and plaque composition) demonstrated that patients with non- obstructive CAD with a high plaque burden had at least a similar long- term prognosis (death or myocardial infarction) to patients with known obstructive CAD.
Greater anatomical complexity of CAD and/ or clinical comor­bidity such as diabetes, chronic kidney disease, or impaired LVEF
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) based on the presence of a right or left dominant system.28 Amultiplication factor of ×2 is used for non- occlusive
lesions (50– 99% diameter stenosis) and ×5 for occlusive (100% diameter stenosis) lesions. For example, a stenotic proximal LAD lesion (segment
6)would have a weighting factor of 3.5×2 (7 points), and an occlusive proximal LAD lesion a weighting factor of 3.5×5 (17.5 points). (b)Other adverse lesion characteristics considered in the SYNTAX score have an additive value. (c)Within the SYNTAX trial,16 the distribution of the anatomical SYNTAX was found to be Gaussian in the randomized PCI and CABG populations with the curves almost being superimposable on each other. When the scores of the randomized SYNTAX population were divided into tertiles, the upper boundary of the lowest tertile was 22 (low risk), the second tertile ranged from 23 to 32 (intermediate risk), and the lower boundary for the highest tertile is equal or greater than 33 (high risk). Based on these tertiles, current European revascularization guidelines76 give patients with 3VD and low SYNTAX scores (0– 22) a level of evidence of IA (evidence and/ or general agreement that a given treatment or procedure is beneficial, useful, effective— is recommended/ is indicated) for CABG. For 3VD without diabetes, the same level of recommendation (IA) as CABG is given for PCI, whereas for 3VD with diabetes the recommendation is reduced for PCI, with a level of evidence of IIb A(usefulness/ efficacy is less well established by evidence/ opinion— may be considered). With 3VD with intermediate– high SYNTAX scores (>22), this remains within the realms of CABG, with a level of evidence IA compared to IIIA (evidence or general agreement that the given treatment or procedure is not useful/ effective, and in some cases may be harmful— is not recommended) for PCI irrespective of diabetic status. In patients with ULMCA disease and low SYNTAX score (<23), a level of evidence of IA is given for CABG and PCI, for an intermediate SYNTAX score (23–
32) a level of evidence for CABG as IA and PCI IIa A(weight of evidence/ opinion is in favour of usefulness/ efficacy— should be considered). In patients with high SYNTAX scores (>32) this remains within the realms of CABG (level of evidence IA compared to IIIB for PCI).
Images adapted and used with permission from the SYNTAX Trial Investigators.
implies an increased likelihood of the patient having a greater plaque burden and the presence (or future development) of vulnerable plaque, particularly in the proximal vessels. In addition, with ex­isting impaired LVEF, the clinical consequences of an acute myocar­dial infarction are more profound, with a greater risk of cardiogenic shock and mortality.
Differing therapeutic mechanisms ofCABG andPCI
Although excess clinical comorbidity is known to increase the short- term surgical operative risk, this is counter- balanced by a potentially greater longer- term prognostic benet of CABG. ere are three fundamental dierences between CABG and PCI. First,
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bypass gras to the mid coronary vessel confer a longer- term pro­tective eect by preventing the clinical consequences of proximal plaque progression or rupture compared to a stent— irrespective of generation— which simply treats the obstructive lesion alone but oers no protection against disease progression.,,,, Second, the longer- term durability of arterial gras, which elute vasoprotective agents into the coronary circulation and are accom­panied by lower shear stress in the bypassed native coronary artery, compared to saphenous vein gras, may be important.–  ird, PCI in contrast to CABG may increase the likelihood of more in­complete revascularization if patients are not appropriately selected. More incomplete revascularization is a key factor in determining fu­ture MACCE and mortality.,
SYNTAX scoreII
e SYNTAX score II, is the anatomical SYNTAX score aug­mented by clinical variables that have been shown to alter the threshold value of the anatomical SYNTAX s core in complex CAD to allow comparison between CABG and PCI for long- term mortality (Fig. 9.6 and Fig. 9.7). Notably, reduced LVEF, impaired kidney func­tion, younger age, and female sex were shown to substantially lower the anatomical SYNTAX scores to allow for equipoise for long- term mortality between CABG and PCI (Fig. 9.8). Conversely, older age, unprotected le main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease, and the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were shown to markedly raise the anatomical SYNTAX scores to allow for equipoise for long- term mortality between CABG and PCI.
e ndings of the SYNTAX score II do suggest that excess plaque burden and clinical comorbidity lie at the heart of decision- making between CABG and PCI, since either increases the likelihood of the presence, or future development, of vulnerable plaque, which would potentially be obviated with a bypass gra. Since the publication of the SYNTAX score II, several studies have provided independent data that have corroborated its ndings as detailed in the following sections.
ImpairedLVEF
A subanalysis of the Surgical Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) trial demonstrated that in subjects with more advanced ischaemic cardiomyopathy, more extensive CAD, and worse myo­cardial dysfunction and remodelling, a net longer- term prognostic benet was seen for CABG compared to optimal medical therapy up to 10years, despite the short- term (30- day) mortality risk being higher with CABG. Although the 10- year mortality was high irre­spective of whether the patient was revascularized or not, the margin of mortality benet was clinically relevant for CABG (10- year mor­tality:58.9% (CABG) vs 66.1% (medical therapy); HR 0.84, 95% CI
0.73– 0.97; P =0.02) validating the concept that CABG provides a protective role in coronary vessels in patients with complex CAD, particularly that associated with severely impaired LVEF.
Another important issue is the potential value of revascularization if the area of myocardium supplied by the coronary vessel is infarcted and non- viable. Acounter argument to this assumption is that the presence of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) has been shown in mul­tiple registries to be a powerful independent predictor of mortality in patients presenting with an acute myocardial infarction., e
underlying principle is that a CTO of, for instance, the le anterior descending artery (LAD), may be dependent on collateralization from the right coronary artery to remain viable., In such a sce­nario, acute occlusion of the right coronary artery would jeopardize the blood supply to both territories with ensuing cardiogenic shock. Likewise, if the LAD was not occluded, it potentially could collat­eralize an occluded right coronary artery irrespective of whether the LAD territory was viable. In essence, patency of all the major epi­cardial vessels is essential to ensure they are able to provide (and receive) collateral blood supply (if present) from other coronary vessels in multivessel disease, particularly since well- developed cor­onary collateral arteries have been shown to reduce potential myo­cardial infarct size and to improve survival.
Chronic kidneydisease
SYNTAX demonstrated that the severity of chronic kidney dis­ease (CKD) had a substantial impact on decision- making be­tween CABG and PCI, with worsening kidney function associated with a greater likelihood for a prognostic benet from CABG., Consequently, as discussed earlier, patients would require substan­tially lower SYNTAX scores to achieve equipoise between CABG and PCI for long- term mortality, most likely due to the greater like­lihood of the existing presence or future development of vulnerable plaque., Importantly no restrictions were placed on the severity of CKD in SYNTAX, due to its all- comers design. ese ndings are supported by a population- based study of patients with CKD and multivessel coronary disease from the Ontario provincial registry demonstrating that CABG is associated with improved early and late mortality compared to PCI.
Conversely, in FREEDOM, the presence of CKD— dened as an estimated glomerular ltration rate less than 60 mL/ min— was shown to have a similar impact on clinical outcomes at a median follow- up of 3.8 years, irrespective of the presence or absence of CKD (HRs for the eect of CABG against PCI on MACCE:with CKD, HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.50– 1.05; without CKD, HR 0.76, 95% CI
0.58– 1.00; interaction, P = 0.83). Importantly, as FREEDOM ex­cluded patients with severe CKD (estimated glomerular ltration rate <15 mL/ min or requiring dialysis), its applicability to diabetics with severe CKD is limited.
Unprotected left main coronary artery disease— EXCEL
e recently reported Evaluation of XIENCE Everolimus Eluting Stent Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Eectiveness of Le Main Revascularization (EXCEL) trial randomly assigned 1905 patients with ULMCA with low to intermediate anatomical complexity (anatomical SYNTAX score <33) to undergo CABG (n=957) or PCI with contemporary DES (n=948)., To mirror clinical practice, site- reported anatomical SYNTAX scores were used as enrolment criteria. Apart from the anatomical entry criteria of EXCEL— patients with up to intermediate anatomical complexity CAD (SYNTAX score <33) in keeping with the le main subgroup ndings of SYNTAX— the design was all- comers to prevent selec­tion that had plagued CABG vs. PCI trials prior to SYNTAX., EXCEL demonstrated at least an equipoise for the primary endpoint (composite outcome of all- cause death, myocardial infarction, and stroke) at a median follow- up of 3years (interquartile range 2.4– 3years, minimum follow- up of 2years):CABG 14.7%, PCI 15.4%
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hazard ratio (HR) for CABG and PCI on the y- axis for each predictor. Each predictor is expressed on the x- axis continuously (upper) or categorically (lower), for a person of mean baseline characteristics. Diabetes is included (highlighted in red) to illustrate its absence of interaction when included in the analyses. Note the differing gradients of the hazards for PCI and CABG, leading to the hazards crossing at an anatomical SYNTAX score of 15. At this cross- over point of hazards, the long- term mortality risk is comparable between CABG and PCI. This threshold of cross- over of hazards will vary according to the level of other variables, namely being lower for female sex, reduced LVEF, and younger age, and higher for COPD, ULMCA disease, and older age. As both peripheral vascular disease (PVD) (P=1.00) and diabetes (P=0.67) lacked an interaction effect, as indicated by almost parallel HRs (i.e. comparable increase in long- term mortality risk), their presence would have no impact on decision- making between CABG and PCI.
Reproduced from Farooq V, van Klaveren D, Steyerberg EW, etal. Anatomical and clinical characteristics to guide decision making between coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention for individual patients:development and validation of SYNTAX score II. Lancet. 2013;381(9867):639– 50 with permission from Elsevier.
(P=0.02 for non- inferiority; HR 1.00, 95% CI 0.79– 1.26; P=0.98 for superiority). However at 5years follow up, despite similar outcomes between CABG and PCI for the primary endpoint— CABG 19.2%, PCI 22% (dierence 2.8%, 95% CI - 0.9 to 6.5, p=0.130, P=0.02 for non- inferiority; HR 1.00, 95% CI 0.79– 1.26; P = 0.98 for super­iority)— survival curves diverged in favour of CABG (CABG 9.9% vs. PCI 13.0%, dierence 3.1%; 95% CI, 0.2 to 6.1).
Notably, when the core laboratory SYNTAX scores were assessed in EXCEL, it was found that approximately a quarter of the patients (24.2%) actually had high anatomical SYNTAX scores (≥33). e site- reported anatomical SYNTAX scores in EXCEL of low (≤22)
in 60.5%, and intermediate (23– 32) in 39.5% were at variance with the core laboratory- reported scores being, respectively, 35.8%, and
40.0% and high (≥33) in 24.2%. Asimilar phenomenon had also previously occurred in the SYNTAX trial, in which there was a sub­stantial disparity in the site versus core laboratory reporting of the anatomical SYNTAX score. It should, however, be emphasized that within SYNTAX, this eect was mitigated when the clinical variables determined in the SYNTAX score II were incorporated, again emphasizing the importance of clinical factors (in addition to coronary anatomy) in decision- making between CABG and PCI on the grounds of predicted long- term mortality.
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(c) Anatomical SYNTAX (points): 20 Age (years): 49 CrCl (ml/min): 99 LVEF (%): 55 Left main: No Sex: Male COPD: No PVD: No
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Fig.9.7 The SYNTAX score II nomogram for bedside application. Total number of points for eight factors can be used to accurately predict long- term
(4- year) mortality for the individual patient proposing to undergo CABG or PCI (left). Case examples are illustrated (right). An online calculator is now available for clinical use (www.syntaxscore.com). PVD, peripheral vascular disease.
Reproduced from Farooq V, van Klaveren D, Steyerberg EW, etal. Anatomical and clinical characteristics to guide decision making between coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention for individual patients:development and validation of SYNTAX score II. Lancet. 2013;381(9867):639– 50 with permission from Elsevier.
Although the results of EXCEL essentially corroborate the nd­ings of SYNTAX (primary endpoint) for patients with ULMCA, given the heterogeneity of anatomical complexity and high- risk pa­tient subgroups recruited in EXCEL, even longer- term follow- up (at least 10years) may be necessary to fully understand the impact of ULMCA disease on decision- making between CABG and PCI. It is noteworthy that at 4years, clinical outcomes in the EXCEL trial appear to be diverging in favour of CABG (Fig. 9.4), despite the pri­mary outcome favouring PCI at 30 days. At 30days, the primary outcome occurred in 7.9% of CABG patients versus 4.9% of PCI pa­tients (P <0.001) largely driven by periprocedural myocardial infarc­tion (dened dierently than in SYNTAX).
Whether the inclusion of more anatomically complex subjects (i.e. high anatomical SYNTAX scores (>32))— not intended by protocol to be recruited in EXCEL— to have impacted on the results of EXCEL is currently not known. Moreover, the disparity between site- and core laboratory- reported anatomical SYNTAX scores iden­tied in both the original SYNTAX trial and EXCEL, highlights the need for a more objective assessment of anatomical coronary complexity and is discussed in the section entitled ‘Non- invasive imaging to guide decision- making’.
Unprotected left main coronary artery disease— NOBLE
Contrary to the ndings of SYNTAX and EXCEL, the Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Graing in Treatment of Unprotected Le Main Stenosis (NOBLE) trial re­ported diverging early results in favour of CABG. NOBLE randomly assigned 1201 patients with ULMCA to undergo CABG (n=603) or PCI with predominantly contemporary DES (n=598)., Notably, NOBLE did not use the anatomical SYNTAX score as entry criteria and instead was reliant on other criteria, namely, visual assessment of le main stenosis diameter greater than or equal to 50% or frac­tional ow reserve of 0.80 or less in the le main coronary artery ostium, mid- sha, or bifurcation non- complex lesions, and no more than three additional non- complex coronary artery lesions. Complex lesions were dened as CTOs, bifurcation lesions requiring a two- stent technique, or lesions with calcied or tortuous vessel morphology. It is notable that systematic screening logs were not available in 31 of the 36 centres which eventually randomized 695/ 1201 (57.9%) patients, whereas in the remaining ve centres 982 pa­tients were screened, with just over half the screened patients (506/ 982 (51.2%)) randomized. In the latter group, the most common
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with ULMCA disease at a median follow- up of 3years. Panel (a)shows the results of the analysis of the primary composite endpoint of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction at 3years. Results of analyses of the components of the primary endpoint are shown in (b)death from any cause, (c)stroke, and (d)myocardial infarction. Event rates were based on Kaplan– Meier estimates in time- to- first- event analyses. Hazard ratios are for the patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus- eluting stents. The rates of stroke and myocardial infarction are non- hierarchical (i.e. fatal and non- fatal events were included). In each panel, the inset shows the same data on an enlarged y- axis. CABG denotes coronary- artery bypass grafting.
Reproduced fromStone GW, Sabik JF, Serruys PW, etal. Everolimus- Eluting Stents or Bypass Surgery for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease [published correction appears in N Engl J Med. 2019 Oct 31;381(18):1789]. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(23):2223– 35. doi:10.1056/ NEJMoa1610227 with permission fromMassachusetts Medical Society
reasons for non- enrolment were consideration that patients were not suitable for CABG or PCI (239/ 982 (24.3%)), greater than three non- complex lesions (94/ 982 (33.3%)), and/ or the presence of any complex lesions (212/ 982 (33.3%)). Furthermore, enrolment in NOBLE was slow— over a 6- year period— with 11% of patients re­ceiving rst- generation DESs. Given that the event rate was lower than anticipated in NOBLE, the investigators changed the primary endpoint from 5years to a median of 3.1years (interquartile range
2.0– 5.0) with all patients followed up for at least 1year which may have had an impact on the reporting of the trial.
Five- year MACCE (a composite of all- cause mortality, non- procedural myocardial infarction, any repeat coronary revascularization, and stroke) in NOBLE was 29% for PCI and 19% for CABG, HR 1.48 (95% CI 1.11– 1.96), exceeding the limit for non­inferiority, with CABG signicantly better than PCI (P=0.0066). Notably outcomes of MACCE were predominantly driven by non­procedural myocardial infarction and repeat revascularization (all- cause mortality 12% vs 9% (HR 1.07, 95% CI 0.67– 1.72; P= 0.77), non- procedural myocardial infarction 7% vs 2% (HR
2.88, 95% CI 1.40– 5.90; P =0.0040), all- cause revascularization