Abstract
Objective
Our objective was to define the most appropriate treatment for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients with malignancy.
Methods and Results
The BleeMACS project is a worldwide multicenter observational prospective registry in 16 hospitals enrolling patients with ACS undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Primary endpoints were death, re-infarction, and major adverse cardiac events (MACE; composite of death and re-infarction) after 1 year of follow-up. The secondary endpoint was bleeding events during follow-up. We performed sub-study analyses according to whether β-blockers (BBs), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), statins, or proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were prescribed at discharge. We also calculated the propensity score for optimal medical therapy (OMT; combination of BB, ACEI/ARB, and statins). The study included 926 patients. According to the multivariate analysis, ACEIs/ARBs (hazard ratio [HR] 0.58, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.36–1.94; p = 0.03) and statins (HR 0.37, 95 % CI 0.23–0.61; p < 0.01) reduced the risk of MACE, while the effects of BBs (HR 0.85, 95 % CI 0.55–1.32; p = 0.48) and PPIs (HR 1.33, 95 % CI 0.83–2.12; p = 0.23) were not significant. OMT was prescribed at discharge in 300 (32.4 %) patients; after propensity score analysis, OMT showed a significant reduction in death (3 % vs. 12.5 %, HR 0.21, 95 % CI 0.1–0.4; log-rank p < 0.001) and MACE (6.7 vs. 15.2 %, log-rank p = 0.01).
Conclusion
In patients with ACS and malignancy, OMT reduces the risk of adverse events at 1 year; in particular, ACEIs/ARBs and statins were the most protective drugs. (Clinical trials identifier: NCT02466854).
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Iannaccone Mario, Fabrizio D´Ascenzo, Ovidio De Filippo, Marco Gagliardi, Claudio Moretti, Sergio Raposeiras-Roubín, Emad Abu-Assi, Jose Paulo Simao Henriques, Jorge Saucedo, José Ramón González-Juanatey, Stephen B. Wilton, Wouter J. Kikkert, Iván Nuñez-Gil, Albert Ariza-Sole, Xiantao Song, Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Christoph Liebetrau, Tetsuma Kawaji, Zenon Huczek, Shao-Ping Nie, Toshiharu Fujii, Luis Correia, Masa-aki Kawashiri, José María García-Acuña, Danielle Southern, Emilio Alfonso, Belén Terol, Alberto Garay, Dongfeng Zhang, Yalei Chen, Ioanna Xanthopoulou, Neriman Osman, Helge Möllmann, Hiroki Shiomi, Michal Kowara, Krzysztof Filipiak, Xiao Wang, Yan Yan, Jing-Yao Fan, Yuji Ikari, Takuya Nakahayshi, Kenji Sakata, Masakazu Yamagishi, Fiorenzo Gaita, Oliver Kalpak, and Sasko Kedev have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
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Iannaccone, M., D´Ascenzo, F., De Filippo, O. et al. Optimal Medical Therapy in Patients with Malignancy Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndrome: a BleeMACS Sub-Study. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs 17, 61–71 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40256-016-0196-x
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