Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Insulin-Treated Diabetic Patients

ABSTRACT Background Diabetics, especially insulin-treated diabetics, have more extensive coronary atherosclerosis and impaired vascular remodeling. Our objective was to evaluate in-hospital results of contemporaneous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a consecutive series of diabetics treated with (ITD) or without (NITD) insulin. Methods Retrospective analysis of a multicenter registry with 1,896 diabetics, of which 397 (20.9%) were from the ITD group and 1,499 from the NITD group. Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were compared between groups. Results The ITD group showed a higher rate of women and of patients with chronic renal failure, but showed less complex angiographic characteristics when compared to the NITD group, with fewer B2/C lesions, thrombus-containing lesions, occlusions and TIMI 0/1 flow prior to PCI. We treated 1.4 ± 0.7 vessels/patient with 1.3 ± 0.7 stents/patient in each group and the diameter and length of stents were not different between groups. Clinical in-hospital outcomes showed no differences regarding the occurrence of MACCE (3.8% vs. 2.8%; P = 0.40), stroke (0 vs. 0.1%; P > 0.99), myocardial infarction (2.5% vs. 2.1%; P = 0.72), emergency cardiovascular bypass graft surgery (0 vs. 0.1%; P > 0.99) or death (1.5% vs. 0.8%; P = 0.24). Independent predictors of MACCE in diabetics were the female gender, patients with multivessel disease and TIMI 0/1 flow prior to PCI. Conclusions In our study, ITD was not an independent predictor of in-hospital MACCE.