著者
Doyeon Hwang Hyun Kuk Kim Joo Myung Lee Ki Hong Choi Jihoon Kim Tae-Min Rhee Jonghanne Park Taek Kyu Park Jeong Hoon Yang Young Bin Song Jin-Ho Choi Joo-Yong Hahn Seung-Hyuk Choi Bon-Kwon Koo Young Jo Kim Shung Chull Chae Myeong Chan Cho Chong Jin Kim Hyeon-Cheol Gwon Myung Ho Jeong Hyo-Soo Kim The KAMIR Investigators
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-17-1221, (Released:2018-02-28)
参考文献数
31
被引用文献数
14

Background:There has been debate regarding the added benefit of high-intensity statins compared with low-moderate-intensity statins, especially in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).Methods and Results:The Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry-National Institutes of Health consecutively enrolled 13,104 AMI patients. Of these, a total of 12,182 patients, who completed 1-year follow-up, were included in this study, and all patients were classified into 3 groups (no statin; low-moderate-intensity statin; and high-intensity statin). The primary outcome was major adverse cardiac event (MACE) including cardiac death, non-fatal MI, and repeat revascularization at 1 year. Both low-moderate-intensity and high-intensity statin significantly reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C; all P<0.001). Compared with the no statin group, both statin groups had significantly lower risk of MACE (low-moderate intensity: HR, 0.506; 95% CI: 0.413–0.619, P<0.001; high intensity: HR, 0.464; 95% CI: 0.352–0.611, P<0.001). The risk of MACE, however, was similar between the low-moderate- and high-intensity statin groups (HR, 0.917; 95% CI: 0.760–1.107, P=0.368). Multivariable adjustment, propensity score matching, and inverse probability weighted analysis also produced the same results.Conclusions:When adequate LDL-C level is achieved, patients on a low-moderate-intensity statin dose have similar cardiovascular outcomes to those on high-intensity statins.
著者
Ki Hong Choi Jeong Hoon Yang David Hong Taek Kyu Park Joo Myung Lee Young Bin Song Joo-Yong Hahn Seung-Hyuk Choi Jin-Ho Choi Su Ryeun Chung Yang Hyun Cho Dong Seop Jeong Kiick Sung Wook Sung Kim Young Tak Lee Hyeon-Cheol Gwon
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.84, no.9, pp.1502-1510, 2020-08-25 (Released:2020-08-25)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
15 27

Background:Although there is an increase in the use of mechanical circulatory support devices to rescue patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by refractory cardiogenic shock (CS), the optimal timing of the application remains controversial. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes between venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) insertion before and after coronary revascularization in AMI patients with refractory CS.Methods and Results:A total of 253 patients with AMI who underwent revascularization therapy with VA-ECMO were included. The study population was stratified into extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) before revascularization (N=106, reference cohort) and refractory CS without E-CPR before revascularization (n=147, comparison cohort). Patients with refractory CS but without E-CPR before revascularization were further divided into VA-ECMO before revascularization (N=50) and VA-ECMO after revascularization (n=97). The primary endpoint was a composite of in-hospital mortality, left ventricular assist device implantation, and heart transplantation. The primary endpoint occurred in 60 patients (40.8%) of the comparison cohort and 51 patients (48.1%) of the reference cohort. Among the comparison cohort, the primary endpoint was significantly lower in VA-ECMO before revascularization than in VA-ECMO after revascularization (32.0% vs. 49.5%, OR 0.480, 95% CI 0.235–0.982, P=0.045). A similar trend was observed after a 1-year follow up.Conclusions:Early initiation of VA-ECMO before revascularization therapy might improve clinical outcomes in patients with AMI complicated by refractory CS.
著者
Jung Min Choi Seung-Hwa Lee Yu Jeong Jang Mira Kang Jin-Ho Choi
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-20-0966, (Released:2021-03-31)
参考文献数
29
被引用文献数
3

Background:Non-compliance with angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) or statin is one of the major hurdles to optimal medical treatment. This study investigated whether fixed-dose combination (FDC) improved compliance to medication compared with traditional free combination (FC).Methods and Results:In this retrospective nationwide cohort study, medication persistency, medication adherence measured by proportion of days covered (PDC), and all-cause death of 123,992 patients who started ARB and stain were investigated for 540 days. Patients had a mean age of 63 years and 48% were male. Persistency, PDC, and proportion of PDC ≥80% of FDC (N=34,776) were higher than those for FC (N=89,216) in both unadjusted analysis (54.5% vs. 27.8%; 84.1% vs. 63.1%; 75.5% vs. 48.1%) and propensity-score matched analysis (P<0.001, all). Death risk for the investigation period (0–540 days) was lower in FDC in unadjusted (1.8% vs. 2.6%, P<0.001) and adjusted cohort (P<0.05). In landmark analyses at days 180 and 360, there was no significant difference of death risk between FDC and FC (P>0.05).Conclusions:In this real-world data analysis, patients taking FDC of ARB and statin showed higher medication persistence and adherence compared to patients taking FC of ARB and statin up to 540 days. The risk of all-cause death was not different between FDC and FC despite better medication compliance in the FDC patients.
著者
Chung Hun Kim Jeong Hoon Yang Taek Kyu Park Young Bin Song Joo-Yong Hahn Jin-Ho Choi Sang Hoon Lee Hyeon-Cheol Gwon Joonghyun Ahn Keumhee Chough Carriere Seung-Hyuk Choi
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-17-1272, (Released:2018-06-14)
参考文献数
31
被引用文献数
4

Background:We investigated whether the outcome of revascularization differed from the outcome of medical therapy in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and non-CKD patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO).Methods and Results:A total of 2,010 patients with CTO who underwent revascularization (n=1,355), including percutaneous coronary intervention (n=878) and coronary artery bypass grafting (n=477), or had medical therapy alone (n=655) were examined. The primary outcome was all-cause death during follow-up. Among the non-CKD patients (n=1,679), revascularization had a lower incidence of all-cause death (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0.54, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.41–0.72, P<0.001) compared with medical therapy. Among the CKD patients (n=331), the difference in the incidence of all-cause death was not as marked between the 2 treatments (adjusted HR 0.71, 95% CI 0.48–1.06, P=0.09). There was a significant interaction between kidney function and treatment strategy (revascularization vs. medical therapy) on all-cause death (P for interaction=0.014).Conclusions:Based on the clinical outcomes, in CTO patients with preexisting CKD, revascularization via PCI or bypass surgery might not be as effective as in non-CKD patients.
著者
Jeong Hoon Yang Bum Sung Kim Woo Jin Jang Joonghyun Ahn Taek Kyu Park Young Bin Song Joo-Yong Hahn Jin-Ho Choi Sang Hoon Lee Hyeon-Cheol Gwon Seung-Hyuk Choi
出版者
日本循環器学会
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-15-0673, (Released:2015-11-19)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
31

Background:Limited data are available on the long-term clinical outcomes of coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) patients who receive optimal medical therapy (OMT) compared with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).Methods and Results:Between March 2003 and February 2012, 2,024 patients with CTO were enrolled in a single-center registry. Among this patient group, we excluded CTO patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting and classified patients into the OMT group (n=664) or PCI group (n=883) according to initial treatment strategy. Propensity-score matching was also performed. The primary outcome was cardiac death. The median follow-up duration was 45.8 (interquartile range: 22.8–71.1) months. In the PCI group, 699 patients (79.2%) underwent successful revascularization. In the propensity-score matched population (533 pairs), there was no significant difference in the rate of cardiac death between the OMT and PCI groups (hazard ratio, 1.57; 95% confidence interval, 0.91–2.72, P=0.11). In the subgroup analysis, there were no significant interactions between the PCI strategy and cardiac death among several subgroups except that regarding collateral flow grades 0–2 vs. those with grade 3 (P=0.01).Conclusions:As an initial treatment strategy, PCI did not reduce cardiac death compared with OMT for the treatment of CTO in the drug-eluting stent era.
著者
Seung Hwa Lee Jeong Hoon Yang Seung-Hyuk Choi Young Bin Song Joo-Yong Hahn Jin-Ho Choi Wook Sung Kim Young Tak Lee Hyeon-Cheol Gwon
出版者
日本循環器学会
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-15-0041, (Released:2015-05-28)
参考文献数
30
被引用文献数
3 11

Background:Limited data are available on the clinical outcomes of medical therapy (MT) compared with revascularization in elderly patients with coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO).Methods and Results:Between March 2003 and February 2012, we retrospectively analyzed 311 patients aged ≥75 years in the Samsung Medical Center CTO registry. Among these, 153 patients were treated with MT and 158 patients with revascularization by intervention or surgery. Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) and propensity score-matching were performed. The primary outcome was cardiac death during follow-up. Median follow-up duration was 34 (interquartile range: 15–58) months. Overall, patients in the MT group were high-risk subjects. Cardiac death of 30 patients (19.6%) occurred in the MT group vs. 17 patients (10.8%) in revascularization group (P=0.027). In the multivariate analysis, there was no significant difference between groups in the rate of cardiac death (hazard ratio [HR], 1.67; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.86–3.24, P=0.13). After adjustment with IPTW, MT showed comparable risk of cardiac death with revascularization therapy (HR, 1.26; 95% CI, 0.71–2.21, P=0.43). In the propensity score-matched population, there was no significant difference in the rate of cardiac death between the MT and revascularization groups (HR, 1.52; 95% CI, 0.76–3.07, P=0.24).Conclusions:In the treatment of CTO in elderly patients, MT alone did not increase the risk of long-term cardiac death when compared with aggressive revascularization treatment.