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Clinical outcomes in PCI patients given sirolimus-eluting and everolimus-eluting stents: the RESET trial

Hot Line II - Frontiers in Interventional Device Treatments

Paris, France, 29 August: The second generation drug-eluting stent, everolimus-eluting stent (EES), has consistently demonstrated superior clinical outcomes in randomised controlled trials over the first generation drug-eluting stent, paclitaxel-eluting stent. However, other earlier studies comparing EES with another first generation drug-eluting stent, sirolimus-eluting stent (SES), have only demonstrated the non-inferiority of EES; the superiority of EES relative to SES in terms of target-lesion revascularisation has not yet been investigated in adequately powered randomised controlled trials.


This has now been addressed in the Randomised Evaluation of Sirolimus-eluting versus Everolimus-eluting stent Trial (RESET), a prospective randomised multicentre open label trial comparing EES with SES in daily clinical practice in Japan. The trial was performed in patients scheduled for percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents, who were enrolled without any exclusion criteria. The primary efficacy endpoint was defined as any target-lesion revascularisation. The trial was a sequential non-inferiority and superiority study, which was powered for non-inferiority on the primary efficacy endpoint at one year after the index procedure.

Between February and July 2010, a total of 3206 patients were enrolled in the trial among 100 participating centres. Excluding nine patients who withdrew consent, 3197 patients were randomly assigned to receive either of the twp investigation stents.

An angiographic sub-study evaluating in-segment late lumen loss and angiographic restenosis rate at eight months included 571 patients. The study population included large proportions of patients with advanced age, diabetes and prior PCI. The two groups of patients were well balanced in terms of baseline clinical, angiographic and procedural characteristics.

Results of this large randomised trial comparing showed EES to be non-inferior to SES in terms of target-lesion revascularisation rate at one year and angiographic in-segment late loss at 8-12 months.

"One-year clinical outcome after both EES and SES use was excellent," said investigator Dr Takeshi Kimura from Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, "with low rate of target-lesion revascularisation and very low rate of stent thrombosis."

However, Dr Kimura cautioned about several limitations to the study. First, he said, although SES was not widely used at the time of the trial, it was the most widely used and most extensively studied first generation DES. Clinical outcome after SES implantation should be regarded as the benchmark for the current and future generation drug-eluting stents. 

Second, despite the all-comers trial design, the study population actually enrolled seemed to represent relatively low-risk patients, resulting in event rates lower than anticipated. Future stent trials, he suggested, might focus more on complex patients, in whom coronary artery bypass grafting could be a reasonable alternative.
     
Dr Kimura also added that longer-term follow-up is important to address whether EES might affect the late adverse events beyond one year such as late restenosis and very late stent thrombosis.

References

This press release accompanies both a presentation and an ESC press conference at the ESC Congress 2011.

Hot Line II - Frontiers in Interventional Device Treatments
One-year Outcome of the Randomized Evaluation of Sirolimus-eluting versus Everolimus-eluting stent Trial (RESET)

Edited by the ESC from material supplied by the investigator himself/herself, this press release does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Society of Cardiology. The content of the press release has been approved by the investigator.

Notes to editor

About the European Society of Cardiology
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