Recent trends in Australian percutaneous coronary intervention practice: Insights from the melbourne interventional group registry

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice trends and 12-month outcomes in Australia in the era of drug-eluting stents (DES). Design, setting and patients: Prospective study of consecutive patients undergoing 9204 PCIs between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2008 at seven Victorian public hospitals. Main outcome measures: Temporal trends in baseline characteristics and in-hospital and 12-month clinical outcomes including death, myocardial infarction (MI), target vessel revascularisation (TVR) and composite major adverse cardiac events (MACE), from year to year. Results: Between 2004-2005 and 2007-2008, the mean age of patients undergoing PCI was stable (65 ±12 years),..