摘要
Approximately 15% - 20% of the patients undergoing percutaneous coronaryintervention (PCI) procedure complicate with diabetes and this patient population continues to be aparticular challenge for both the interventional cardiologist and the cardiac surgeon. It is welldocumented that diabetes is associated with more diffuse and severe coronary atherosclerosis.Long-term outcome after PCI is clearly worse in diabetics compared with non-diabetics. However,there is little information on the procedural and in-hospital outcomes of elective PCI in diabeticpatients. In this study we analyzed the practice and in-hospital outcomes in a large series ofconsecutively treated patients with and without diabetes who underwent elective PCI.
Approximately 15% - 20% of the patients undergoing percutaneous coronaryintervention (PCI) procedure complicate with diabetes and this patient population continues to be aparticular challenge for both the interventional cardiologist and the cardiac surgeon. It is welldocumented that diabetes is associated with more diffuse and severe coronary atherosclerosis.Long-term outcome after PCI is clearly worse in diabetics compared with non-diabetics. However,there is little information on the procedural and in-hospital outcomes of elective PCI in diabeticpatients. In this study we analyzed the practice and in-hospital outcomes in a large series ofconsecutively treated patients with and without diabetes who underwent elective PCI.
