Cause of death within 30 days of percutaneous coronary intervention in an era of mandatory outcome reporting: Bhuvnesh A, Ellis SG, Lincoff AM, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;62:409-15.

摘要

In anticipation of public reporting of outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) becoming standard practice, this study from a single tertiary care center sought to investigate the incidence and causes of death in patients who had undergone PCI. Death within 30 days post intervention was studied through a retrospective chart review of a PCI registry examining cardiac, noncardiac, PCI- and non-PCI-related causes of death from January 2009 to April 2011. Cardiac death was defined as myocardial infarction, low output failure, fatal dysrhythmia, unwitnessed death, death from unknown cause, procedure-related deaths, and all death that could not show clear noncardiac cause.