- 著者
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             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
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             3
             
             
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        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.