DEFERRED STENTING - AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY FOR THE INVASIVE MANAGEMENT OF STEMI PATIENTS WITH SIGNIFICANT THROMBUS BURDEN

myocardial infarction (STEMI). Despite this, there is a lack of data in this high-risk patient population. The purpose of the study is to characterize the baseline characteristics, culprit lesions and outcomes of patients with previous CABG and STEMI. METHODS AND RESULTS: We retrospectively reviewed a database of all patients undergoing emergency percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of which 95.8% of patients had electrocardiographic evidence of STEMI at a single-centre in British Columbia between January 2009 and December 2013. There were 94 (2.9%) patients with a prior history of CABG in a total of 3231 patients. The prior CABG group was significantly older and had a significantly greater incidence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, previousMI, previous heart failure, and previous PCI. There was a significantly greater length of stay in the CABG population, but no difference when comparing in hospital mortality. The infarct-related vessel in the CABG group was a bypass graft in 44 patients (48.9%), native coronary artery in 36 patients (40.0%), was not identifiable in 10 patients (11.1%) and 4 patients had missing data. We further stratified previous CABG patients by the time between emergency PCI and index CABG. There were 79 patients (84.0%) who had CABG more than five years from emergency PCI. There were no significant differences in baseline characteristics, culprit lesions and 30-day mortality between CABG more than five years and less than five years from emergency PCI. CONCLUSION: Emergency PCI for STEMI after previous CABG is associated with more comorbidities when compared with patients that did not undergo previous CABG. However, there were similar outcomes in short-term mortality. Furthermore, there were no significant differences in baseline characteristics and short-term mortality between the timing from initial CABG to emergency PCI. Further data analysis is needed to characterize longer-term outcomes.