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SCAI: CARDia Data Find Diabetic Patients With Complex Heart Disease Can Safely Choose PCI
Date:9/1/2008

At One Year, Angioplasty and Stenting Matches Bypass Surgery for Safety and

Effectiveness in Patients with Complex Medical Condition

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with both diabetes and advanced blockages in at least three heart vessels will find good news in new findings announced today from the CARDia trial, says The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). The one-year findings of the new study indicate that these patients can safely choose to undergo angioplasty and stenting rather than open-heart surgery.

At the European Society of Cardiology Congress (Munich, Germany), investigators from the United Kingdom presented the results of CARDia (Coronary Artery Revascularization in Diabetes), a clinical trial comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. open-heart surgery in patients typically considered to be poor candidates for angioplasty and stenting. Since the combination of diabetes and multi-vessel coronary artery disease has long been considered the domain of surgeons, their findings surprised some: The patients who underwent PCI rather that surgery did just as well as the surgery patients on the primary endpoint of death, heart attack, and stroke. In addition, the PCI patients experienced fewer strokes and less bleeding.

This finding differs from earlier trials comparing PCI and surgery in these patients, perhaps because drug-eluting stents have been added to the mix, suggest SCAI leaders. "The take-away message is that diabetic patients with complex coronary artery disease may now be able to choose angioplasty and stenting over bypass surgery," says Dr. Bonnie Weiner, SCAI Immediate Past President, Professor of Medicine, and Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at St. Vincent Hospital at Worcester Medical Center (Worcester, MA). "It's important to realize that this is one trial and the first-year findings, but it's a good sign for patients because it could ultimat
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