Background:
Cardiovascular disease has shown increasing occurrence rates among young people and data of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in this group are scarce. Our objective was to perform a retrospective evaluation of the profile and in-hospital clinical outcomes of young patients in this PCI registry.
Methods:
From 2006 to 2012, 6,288 patients were consecutively submitted to PCI, of whom 151 were < 40 years of age (Group 1) and 6,127 were ≥ 40 years of age (Group 2). Logistic regression models were applied to identify the predictors of cardiac events and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in the study population.
Results:
In Group 1, there was a prevalence of smoking, myocardial infection as a clinical presentation, single vessel disease (left anterior descending artery as the culprit vessel), thrombotic lesions, and TIMI flow 0/1. The clinical success of PCI (96.0 % vs. 95.5 %; p = 0.89), and the occurrence of MACCE (3.3% vs. 3.3%; p = 0.82), death (0.0% vs. 1.0%; p = 0.39, stroke (0.0% vs. 0.1%; p > 0.99), myocardial infarction (3.3% vs. 2.3%; p = 0.41) or emergency revascularization (0.6% vs. 0.03%; p = 0.56) were similar between groups. In the multivariate analysis, age and presence of functional class Killip III and IV were the variables that best explained the occurrence of MACCE.
Conclusions:
Patients with age < 40 years represented a small fraction of the cases in this series and had a clinical and angiographic profile different from the older patients, suggesting the need to establish primary prevention measures earlier in individuals with the observed profile.
Coronary artery disease; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Young adult; Treatment outcome; Age factors