Clinical Study

Angiographic Complete versus Clinical Selective Incomplete Percutaneous Revascularization in Heart Failure Patients with Multivessel Coronary Disease

Table 2

Five-year follow-up outcomes in patients with heart failure with multivessel disease according to revascularization strategies.

VariablesPatient number, nEvents, n (%)Crude HR (95% CI) valueAdjusted# HR (95% CI) value

Recurrent MI
Angiographic CR24920 (8.0)1.00 (reference)1.00 (reference)
Selective IR31716 (5.0)0.62 (0.32–1.20)0.1570.65 (0.34–1.26)0.653
Failed CR341 (2.9)0.50 (0.07–3.72)0.4980.57 (0.08–4.24)0.579
Any revascularization
Angiographic CR24938 (15.3)1.00 (reference)1.00 (reference)
Selective IR31754 (17.0)1.10 (0.73–1.66)0.6601.13 (0.75–1.72)0.556
Failed CR347 (20.6)1.94 (0.87–4.35)0.1062.12 (0.94–4.75)0.069
30-day mortality
Angiographic CR2498 (3.2)1.00 (reference)1.00 (reference)
Selective IR3177 (2.2)0.68 (0.25–1.88)0.4570.59 (0.21–1.63)0.304
Failed CR346 (17.6)5.80 (2.01–16.7)0.0015.38 (1.78–16.2)0.003
5-year mortality
Angiographic CR24934 (13.7)1.00 (reference)1.00 (reference)
Selective IR31741 (12.9)0.94 (0.60–1.48)0.7840.90 (0.57–1.42)0.641
Failed CR3412 (35.3)3.34 (1.73–6.45)0.0012.96 (1.51–5.81)0.002
5-year MACEs
Angiographic CR24975 (30.1)1.00 (reference)1.00 (reference)
Selective IR31793 (29.3)0.96 (0.71–1.30)0.8011.01 (0.74–1.37)0.962
Failed CR3419 (55.9)2.53 (1.53–4.19)0.0012.87 (1.72–4.77)0.001

#Adjust baseline clinical variables with value < 0.2 in Table 1 including diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, previous stroke, left ventricular ejection fraction, bifurcation lesion, chronic total occlusion, and NYHA Functional Class in the Cox proportional regression model. value <0.05. Definition of MACEs: composite of myocardial infarction, revascularization, in-hospital mortality, and all-cause mortality. CR = complete revascularization; IR = incomplete revascularization; MACEs = major adverse cardiac events; MI = myocardial infarction.