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Hongyu Zhang, Baohua Qiu, Yan Zhang, Yanjun Cao, Xia Zhang, Zhiguo Wu, Shujing Wang, Lianlian Mei
(Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Baodi Hospital, Baodi College of Clinical Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China (mainland))
Med Sci Monit 2018; 24: CLR4528-4535
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.909360
BACKGROUND:
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has improved outcomes greatly in patients with ST-elevation myocardial acute infarction (STEMI). However, the no-reflow phenomenon significantly reduces its efficacy.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
In this study, we investigated the value of combining plasma D-dimer level on admission and pre-infarction angina (PIA) in predicting no-reflow phenomenon in STEMI patients after primary PCI. A total of 926 STEMI patients who underwent primary PCI were included.
RESULTS:
The average age was 52.6 years, 617 (66.6%) of them had experienced a PIA, and 435 (47.9%) showed no-reflow phenomenon after primary PCI. Both PIA and plasma D-dimer on admission were independent predictors of no-reflow, with a risk of 0.516 (95% CI: 0.380 to 0.701) and 2.563 (95% CI: 1.910 to 3.439), respectively. Plasma D-dimer level had an area under curve (AUC) of 0.604 (95% CI: 0.568~0.641) in predicting no-reflow phenomenon, and PIA had an AUC of 0.574 (95% CI: 0.537 to 0.611). Importantly, the new signature combining D-dimer level on admission and PIA showed an increased AUC (0.637, 95%CI: 0.601 to 0.673) in predicting the no-reflow phenomenon. Moreover, the patients with high D-dimer level on admission but without PIA had significantly increased ratio of no-reflow phenomenon and in-hospital mortality compared to the other patients (P<0.001 and P=0.041, respectively).
CONCLUSIONS:
Based on these solid results, we conclude that combining plasma D-dimer level on admission and PIA might create a good signature for use in predicting the no-reflow phenomenon after primary PCI in STEMI patients.