Clinical outcomes of biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting BioMatrix stents versus durable polymer everolimus-eluting Xience stents

PLoS One. 2017 Aug 10;12(8):e0183079. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183079. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

There are limited data about clinical outcomes of biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting BioMatrix stents (BP-BES) and durable polymer everolimus-eluting Xience stents (DP-EES) in real world practice. We sought to compare the clinical outcomes of BP-BES and DP-EES in real world cohorts of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. A prospective multicenter registry enrolled 999 patients treated with BP-BES and 1,000 patients treated with DP-EES. The primary outcome was target lesion failure, defined as a composite of cardiac death, target vessel-related myocardial infarction, or target lesion revascularization. Definite or probable stent thrombosis was also compared in total and propensity score-matched cohorts. The median follow-up duration was 24 months, and mean age was 65 years (interquartile range, 56-72 years). Patients receiving BP-BES had a lower prevalence of acute coronary syndrome, prior myocardial infarction, multi-vessel disease, bifurcation lesions, and left anterior descending artery lesions than those receiving DP-EES. After propensity score matching (692 pairs), target lesion failure occurred in 22 patients receiving BP-BES and in 25 patients receiving DP-EES (3.2% versus 3.6%; adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 0.92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.53 to 1.60; p = 0.77). The risk of definite or probable stent thrombosis did not differ between the 2 groups (0.4% versus 0.4%; adjusted HR, 1.03; 95% CI, 0.21 to 4.98; p = 0.97). The results were consistent across various subgroups. In the propensity score-matched analysis of real world cohorts, BP-BES showed similar clinical outcomes compared to DP-EES. We need to investigate about whether differences in clinical outcome emerge during long-term follow-up.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Absorbable Implants / adverse effects
  • Aged
  • Coated Materials, Biocompatible / adverse effects*
  • Drug-Eluting Stents / adverse effects*
  • Everolimus / administration & dosage*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / adverse effects
  • Polymers / adverse effects*
  • Propensity Score
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • Prospective Studies
  • Sirolimus / administration & dosage
  • Sirolimus / analogs & derivatives*
  • Thrombosis / etiology
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Coated Materials, Biocompatible
  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • Polymers
  • Everolimus
  • umirolimus
  • Sirolimus

Grants and funding

The authors received funding for this work from CJ HealthCare (Seoul, Republic of Korea) and DIO (Busan, Republic of Korea).