Abstract
Materials and methods. Over the period of 2013 to 2018, endovascular correction of long (more than 25 mm) coronary artery lesions was performed on 80 patients in RSPC “Cardiology”, Minsk. Randomly the patients were divided into 2 groups: experimental group (EG) (n = 40) – endovascular correction with bioresorbable everolimus-eluting vascular scaffold Absorb BVS, and control group (CG) (n = 40) – endovascular correction with everolimus-eluting metallic stent Xience V/ Xience Pro. During further observations we estimated the development of death outcomes (from any reasons and from heart diseases), cases of acute myocardial infarction, incidence of revascularization due to target lesion patency failure, as well as a combined endpoint (all death cases + cases of acute myocardial infarction+ revascularization due to target lesion patency failure). The information about the presence or absence of negative outcomes was collected during the observation via a telephone contact with the patient or their relatives. Results. In the mean long-term observational period of 86.5 months (interquartile range from 77.0 to 93.0 months) after percutaneous intervention (PCI) total death cases were registered in 7.5% cases for the experimental group and in 5% cases for the control group (CG) (p = 1.00). The combined endpoint (death + myocardial infarction + target lesion revascularization) was registered in 17.5% cases for EG and in 15% cases for CG (p = 1.00). Kaplan-Meier analysis did not reveal statistical signif icance between the study groups (p = 0.78). Conclusion. Long lesion correction with biodegradable vascular scaffolds shows similar long-term clinical results in comparison with everolimus-eluting stents. The combined endpoint risk (all death cases + myocardial infarction + revascularization due to target lesion failure) statistically did not differ in long-term period between both groups.
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