Six-Month Versus 12-Month Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents The Efficacy of Xience/Promus Versus Cypher to Reduce Late Loss After Stenting (EXCELLENT) Randomized, Multicenter Study
- Author(s)
- Hyeon-Cheol Gwon; Joo-Yong Hahn; Kyung Woo Park; Young Bin Song; In-Ho Chae; Do-Sun Lim; Kyoo-Rok Han; Jin-Ho Choi; Seung-Hyuk Choi; Hyun-Jae Kang; Bon-Kwon Koo; Taehoon Ahn; Jung-Han Yoon; Myung-Ho Jeong; Taek-Jong Hong; Woo-Young Chung; Young-Jin Choi; Seung-Ho Hur; Hyuck-Moon Kwon; Dong-Woon Jeon; Byung-Ok Kim; Si-Hoon Park; Nam-Ho Lee; Hui-Kyung Jeon; Yangsoo Jang; Hyo-Soo Kim
- Keimyung Author(s)
- Hur, Seung Ho
- Department
- Dept. of Internal Medicine (내과학)
- Journal Title
- Circulation
- Issued Date
- 2012
- Volume
- 125
- Issue
- 3
- Abstract
- Background—The optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after implantation of drug-eluting coronary stents remains undetermined. We aimed to test whether 6-month DAPT would be noninferior to 12-month DAPT after implantation of drug-eluting stents.
Methods and Results—We randomly assigned 1443 patients undergoing implantation of drug-eluting stents to receive 6- or 12-month DAPT (in a 1:1 ratio). The primary end point was a target vessel failure, defined as the composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, or ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization at 12 months. Rates of target vessel failure at 12 months were 4.8% in the 6-month DAPT group and 4.3% in the 12-month DAPT group (the upper limit of 1-sided 95% confidence interval, 2.4%; P=0.001 for noninferiority with a predefined noninferiority margin of 4.0%). Although stent thrombosis tended to occur more frequently in the 6-month DAPT group than in the 12-month group (0.9% versus 0.1%; hazard ratio, 6.02; 95% confidence interval, 0.72–49.96; P=0.10), the risk of death or myocardial infarction did not differ in the 2 groups (2.4% versus 1.9%; hazard ratio, 1.21; 95% confidence interval, 0.60–2.47; P=0.58). In the prespecified subgroup analysis, target vessel failure occurred more frequently in the 6-month DAPT group than in the 12-month group (hazard ratio, 3.16; 95% confidence interval, 1.42–7.03; P=0.005) among diabetic patients.
Conclusions—Six-month DAPT did not increase the risk of target vessel failure at 12 months after implantation of drug-eluting stents compared with 12-month DAPT. However, the noninferiority margin was wide, and the study was underpowered for death or myocardial infarction. Our results need to be confirmed in larger trials.
Clinical Trial Registration—URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00698607.
Key Words: drug-eluting stents
platelet aggregation inhibitors
stents
thrombosis
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