December 08, 2020
The rate at which periprocedural stroke occurs after PCI and CABG in contemporary practice is “not negligible” and is associated with a higher long-term mortality risk, according to findings from the Japanese CREDO-Kyoto PCI/CABG registry Cohort-3.
Stroke occurred within 30 days of the procedure in 0.96% of the PCI group and 2.13% of the CABG group (
P 0.001), with most of these patients leaving the hospital with at least mild disability, researchers led by Ko Yamamoto, MD (Kyoto University, Japan), report in a study published online last week in the
American Journal of Cardiology.
Periprocedural stroke was associated with a higher risk of mortality regardless of the mode of revascularization through a median follow-up of 5.7 years.