Table 3 PCI versus medical therapy in long-term MACEs according to SYNTAX scores
Overall | SYNTAX score ≤ 22 | SYNTAX score 23–32 | SYNTAX score ≥ 33 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical therapy ((n = 1018) | PCI (n = 1346) | P value | Medical therapy (n = 889) | PCI (n = 806) | P value | Medical therapy (n = 81) | PCI (n = 351) | P value | Medical therapy (n = 48) | PCI (n = 189) | P value | |
MACEs, n (%) | 35 (3.4) | 60 (4.5) | 0.211 | 25 (2.8) | 32 (4.0) | 0.187 | 2 (2.5) | 14 (4.0) | 0.514 | 8 (16.7) | 14 (7.4) | 0.048 |
All-cause death, n (%) | 27 (2.7) | 43 (3.2) | 0.411 | 18 (2.0) | 21 (2.6) | 0.426 | 2 (2.5) | 9 (2.6) | 0.961 | 7 (14.6) | 13 (6.9) | 0.086 |
Cardiac death, n (%) | 13 (1.3) | 24(1.8) | 0.326 | 7 (0.8) | 13 (1.6) | 0.116 | 1 (1.2) | 4 (1.1) | 0.943 | 7 (14.6) | 7 (3.7) | 0.004 |
Nonfatal MI, n (%) | 3 (0.3) | 6 (0.4) | 0.555 | 2 (0.2) | 3 (0.4) | 0.557 | 0 (0) | 2 (0.6) | 0.496 | 1 (2.1) | 1 (0.5) | 0.293 |
Stroke, n (%) | 5 (0.5) | 11 (0.8) | 0.338 | 5 (0.6) | 8 (1.0) | 0.311 | 0 (0) | 3 (0.9) | 0.404 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |