Journal Article

Ascertainment of Silent Myocardial Infarction in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from the GLOBAL LEADERS Trial)

Jüni, Peter, van Geuns, Robert-Jan, Hamm, Christian, Steg, Philippe Gabriel, Komiyama, Hidenori, Vranckx, Pascal, Tomaniak, Mariusz, Spitzer, Ernest, Frey, Bernhard, Zaman, Azfar, Bertrand, Olivier F., Koh, Tian Hai, Windecker, Stephan, Takahashi, Kuniaki, Hoole, Stephen P., Gori, Tommaso, Chang, Chun Chin, Soliman, Osama, Sousa, Amanda, Chichareon, Ply, Modolo, Rodrigo, Moschovitis, Aris, Yap, Sing-Chien, Serruys, Patrick W., Kogame, Norihiro, Ferreira, Rui Cruz, Valgimigli, Marco, Onuma, Yoshinobu

2019

Overview

Q-wave myocardial infarction (QWMI) comprises 2 entities. First, a clinically evident MI, which can occur spontaneously or be related to a coronary procedure. Second, silent MI which is incidentally detected on serial electrocardiographic (ECG) assessment. The prevalence of silent MI after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the drug-eluting stent era has not been fully investigated. The GLOBAL LEADERS is an all-comers multicenter trial which randomized 15,991 patients who underwent PCI to 2 antiplatelet treatment strategies. The primary end point was a composite of all-cause death or nonfatal new QWMI at 2-years follow-up. ECGs were collected at discharge, 3-month and 2-year visits, and analyzed by an independent ECG core laboratory following the Minnesota code. All new QWMI were further reviewed by a blinded independent cardiologist to identify a potential clinical correlate by reviewing clinical information. Of 15,968 participants, ECG information was complete in 14,829 (92.9%) at 2 years. A new QWMI was confirmed in 186 (1.16%) patients. Transient new Q-waves were observed in 28.5% (53 of 186) of them during the follow-up. The majority of new QWMI (78%, 146 of 186) were classified as silent MI due to the absence of a clinical correlate. Silent MI accounted for 22.1% (146 of 660) of all MI events. The prevalence of silent MI did not differ significantly between treatment strategies (experimental vs reference: 0.88% vs 0.98%, p = 0.5027). In conclusion, we document the prevalence of silent MI in an all-comers population undergoing PCI in this large-scale randomized trial.

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc,Elsevier Limited
• Subject: Acute coronary syndromes / Aged / Analysis of Variance / Angioplasty / Aspirin - therapeutic use / Asymptomatic Diseases - mortality / Body mass index / Cardiovascular disease / Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Coronary Angiography - methods / Coronary vessels / Diabetes / Drug delivery / Drug Therapy, Combination / Drug-Eluting Stents / EKG / Electrocardiography / Electrocardiography - methods / Family medical history / Female / Heart attacks / Heart surgery / Humans / Hypertension / Implants / Internationality / Kaplan-Meier Estimate / Laboratories / Male / Middle Aged / Myocardial infarction / Myocardial Infarction - diagnostic imaging / Myocardial Infarction - mortality / Myocardial Infarction - therapy / Patients / Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - methods / Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - mortality / Prognosis / Prospective Studies / Risk Assessment / Statistics, Nonparametric / Surgical implants / Survival Analysis / Ticagrelor - therapeutic use / Treatment Outcome