The Case for PCI as the Preferred Therapy in Most Patients with Chronic Stable Angina Ajay J. Kirtane,, MD Columbia University Medical Center The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Conflict of Interest Disclosure Ajay J. Kirtane Past honorarium from Boston Scientific Corporation (modest) Consultant/Speaker: Medtronic Vascular, Abbott Vascular (modest), St. Jude Medical (modest)
The Term Stable Angina Can Be Confusing Stable Angina is a Term Describing Symptoms, not a Diagnosis!!! Stable Angina encompasses a range of patient /disease characteristics (including patients with NO angina!)* Not only are the symptoms of stable angina diverse, but so is the prognosis The risk of the specific population being studied is of paramount importance *2002 ACC/AHA Guidelines
Two Goals of Therapy in Patients with Stable Angina 1. Improve Symptoms and Quality of Life Measured by soft endpoints (i.e. angina/qol scales) 2. Improve Prognosis Measured by hard endpoints (i.e. death, MI)
Therapies for Stable Angina Medical Therapy (ALL Patients) Antiplatelet Therapy (Aspirin, ADP-antagonists) Disease Modification (Statins, anti-dm, anti-htn) Lifestyle Modification (Diet, Smoking Cessation, Exercise) Anti-Anginals (Beta-blockers*, Nitrates, Calcium- Channel Blockers) Revascularization (Selected Patients?) PCI CABG
Med Rx vs. PCI: Angina/QOL at 1 Year Trial QOL Angina ETT ACME ACME 2 MASS ACIP RITA 2 AVERT MASS II TIME COURAGE 9 randomized trials
Effect of Optimal Medical Therapy Freedom From Angina in COURAGE PCI + OMT OMT p Baseline 12% 13% NS 1 Year 66% 58% 0.001 3 Years 72% 67% 0.02 5 Years 74% 72% NS But The Baseline Population is Critical! 43% Class 0-10 (+32% PCI) 72% Angina Free
Model of Angina Distribution in COURAGE Log-normal Distribution Prob. density 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 Average One per Week Mean 6 episodes/week Median 3 episodes/week Distribution must be skewed! 32% Crossover 0 5 10 15 20 25 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Distribution function Prob. density Distribution function
Secondary Prevention Performance Measures are Implemented More Frequently After PCI in CAD Patients Perform. Measure CABG PCI None p ACE Inhibitor 57.3 74.0 66.3 <0.0001 Aspirin 97.1 99.4 94.5 <0.0001 Beta Blocker 90.8 91.0 88.2 <0.0001 Smoking Advice 82.4 84.8 73.9 <0.0001 Lipid Drug 77.4 89.2 72.3 <0.0001 Defect-Free 100% Compliance 65.1 71.5 62.1 <0.0001 Hiratska et al for the Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee, Circulation. 2007;116:I-207 I-212
Med Rx vs. PCI: Angina/QOL at 1 Year Trial QOL Angina ETT ACME ACME 2 MASS ACIP RITA 2 AVERT MASS II TIME COURAGE 9 randomized trials
Pre-COURAGE: Stable CAD PTCA/BMS vs. Medical Therapy Meta-analysis analysis of 11 randomized trials; N = 2,950 Death Cardiac death or MI Nonfatal MI CABG PCI Favors PCI Favors Medical Management P 0.68 0.28 0.12 0.82 0.34 0 1 2 Risk ratio (95% Cl) Katritsis DG et al. Circulation. 2005;111:2906-12 12.
Freedom from MI (any biomarker elevation) (median FU 4.6 yrs) Freedom from MI (%) 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 OMT PCI + OMT Periprocedural MI 35 PCI + OMT 9 OMT Spontaneous MI 108 PCI + OMT 119 OMT Hazard ratio: 1.13 95% CI (0.89-1.43) P = 0.33 MI at 4.6 yrs 12.3% 13.2% 0.0 Number at Risk 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Years Medical Therapy 1138 1019 962 834 638 409 192 120 PCI 1149 1015 954 833 637 418 200 134 7 Boden WE et al. NEJM 2007;356:1503-16 16
COURAGE: A Very Low Risk Group Annual CV Death Rates in Stable CAD 3 2 Beach n=68, 236 Network Meta n=18,023 APSIS n=809 COURAGE n=2,287 1.8 2.7 1 1.1 0.4 0 CV Death Steg JAMA;297;1197; Stettler Lancet 2007;370:937; Hjemdahl Heart 206;92:177
There is a Wide-Range of Morbidity/Mortality among Stable Angina Patients Cardiac Death Rate (%) (1.9 yr FU) N=9,956 pts 5.4% cardiac mortality in 1.9 years - Is this stable angina? Columbia N=7110 University N=1331 N=718 Medical N=545 Center N=252 The Cardiovascular 0% 1-5% Research 5-10% 11-20% Foundation >20% % Total Ischemic Myocardium Hachamovitch et al, Circulation 2003;107:2900-07
MPS % Ischemic Myocardium (95% CI) Pre-Rx & 6-18 Months 40 PCI + OMT (n=159) 40 OMT (n=155) 35 30 Mean = -2.7% (95% CI = -3.8% to -1.7%) 35 30 Mean = -0.5% (95% CI = -1.6% to 0.6%) 25 p<0.0001 25 p<0.0001 20 20 15 10 5 0 8.2% 5.5% Pre-Rx 6-18m (4.7%-6.3%) 15 10 5 0 8.6% 8.1% Pre-Rx 6-18m (6.9%-9.4%) Shaw, et al, AHA 2007 and Circulation 2008
Rates of Death or MI by Ischemia Reduction 40% RR=0.47 (95% CI=0.23-0.95) Death or MI Rate (%) 30% 20% 13.4% p=0.037 24.7% 10% 0% Ischemia Reduction 5% (n=82) No Ischemia Reduction (n=232) Shaw, et al, AHA 2007 and Circulation 2008
Rates of Death or MI by Residual Ischemia on 6-18m MPS Death or MI Rate (%) 40% 30% 20% p=0.063 15.6% p=0.023 22.3% p=0.002 39.3% 10% 0% 0.0% 0% (n=23) 1%-4.9% (n=141) 5%-9.9% (n=88) >10% (n=62) Shaw, et al, AHA 2007 and Circulation 2008
Gradient of risk according to ischemic burden 1.9 yrs of Follow-up with Medical Therapy 10% 8% Cardiac Death Rate 6% 4% 2.9% 4.8% 6.7% 2% 1.0% 0% 1331 718 545 252 1-5% 5-10% 11-20% >20% % Total Ischemic Myocardium Hachamovitch et al Circulation 2003; 107:2900-2907
Mitigatated Gradient with Revasuclarization 10% Medical Rx Revasc P <.0001 8% Cardiac Death Rate 6% 4% 2% 1.0% 6.7% 4.8% 3.7% 3.3% 2.9% 1.8% 2.0% 0% 1331 56 718 109 545 243 252 267 1-5% 5-10% 11-20% >20% % Total Ischemic Myocardium Hachamovitch et al Circulation 2003; 107:2900-2907
Hemodynamics Predict Prognosis: DEFER Study 5 year follow-up 20.0% P=0.003 Cardiac Death or MI 15.0% 10.0% 15.7% 5.0% 0.0% 5.6% FFR 0.75 FFR < 0.75 n=181 n=144 Pijls et al. JACC 49, 2007;2105 11
Five-year Survival with Balloon Angioplasty or Stents vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Multivessel Disease Study, Year (Reference) Surviving Patients/All Patients, n/n PCI CABG BARI, 1996 (64) 790/915 816/914 EAST, 2000 (80) 153/174 161/177 GABI, 2005 (88)* 164/177 157/165 RITA, 1998 (110) 483/510 474/501 French Monocentric Study, 1997 (126) 66/76 68/76 Balloon overall 1656/1852 1676/1833 ARTS, 2005 (23) 542/590 538/584 AWESOME, 2001 (28) 30/38 19/26 ERACIII, 2005 (86) 209/225 199/225 MASS II, 2006 (103) 177/205 171/203 BMS overall 958/1058 927/1038 MVD overall 2614/2910 2603/2871 Risk Difference (95% CI) -0.15-0.08 0.00 Greater Survival with CABG 0.08 0.15 Greater Survival with PCI Bravata et al, Ann Intern Med. 2007;147.
NY State CABG vs. DES (Adjusted) Hannan et al, N Engl J Med 2008;358:331-41
AMC Experience (Korea) PCI vs. CABG for Multivessel Disease Mortality Estimate Hazard Ratio (95% CI) p Crude 0.65 (0.47 0.90) 0.90) 0.01 MV-Adjusted 0.85 (0.56 1.30) 0.45 Prop-Adjusted 0.95 (0.72 1.53) 0.68 Prop-Stratified 0.90 (0.59 1.37) 0.63 Registry series of all-cause mortality to 3 yrs in 3042 patients treated with PCI or CABG Park et al, Circulation 2008; 117:2079-2086
ARTS II MACCE up to 3 Years Event free Survival (%) 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 ARTS II ARTS I CABG ARTS I PCI P (log rank) = 0.22 between ARTS II and ARTS I-CABG P (log rank) <0.001 between ARTS II and ARTS I-PCI 83.8% 80.6% 66.0% 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 Time (Months) From P. Serruys Eurointervention 2007; 3: 450-459
Take-Home Points The Measured Benefit of any Therapy over Another Depends on: Relative effectiveness of the therapy Baseline Risk (event rate) Measured goal of therapy (outcome) To measure risk in Stable CAD, we need to look at severity of symptoms, extent of ischemia, and absolute event rates Non-novel novel finding: : In symptomatic or higher-risk risk pts, revasc will be beneficial
Summary: Who Should NOT Get PCI? I favor Medical Therapy in: Asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients with no or very little ischemia Patients in whom revasc.. is too risky I favor CABG in: Patients/disease subsets who are poor candidates for PCI, but we need more trial results to better define this population (we will soon have these)
Where Do We Go From Here? 2006-2007 PCI Under Attack 2007-2008 Critical Reappraisal / Emerging Data 2008-???? Let s RESUME Moving Forward!