ABSTRACT
The purpose of this registry was to document the safety and efficacy of elective deployment of the NIROYAL stent (Boston Scientific SCIMED, Maple Grove, Minnesota) in coronary arteries. This was a prospective, multi-center international registry. NIROYAL stents (9, 16, 25 and 32 mm-long) were manually crimped onto coronary balloons and deployed in de novo or restenotic lesions in 165 male and female patients with angina pectoris and a reference vessel diameter of 2.0-4.5 mm. Stent deployment was successful in 98.8% of the lesions. Mean percent diameter stenosis decreased from 83.5+/-10.8% to 2.7+/- 6.2% after intervention. The interventional procedure of the treatment site was successful in 97.6% of patients. At six-month clinical follow-up, 88.5% had event-free survival [i.e., did not experience a major adverse cardiac event (MACE)] and 95.2% had no anginal symptoms. Furthermore, 87.3% of the patients were free of target vessel failure (defined as a composite of acute procedural failure, target vessel revascularization, myocardial infarction or death at six months). Only three MACE were observed within the first 30 days after stent implantation. A low left ventricular ejection fraction and the percentage stenosis pre-procedure were identified as statistically significant (p<0.05) predictive factors for MACE. The incidences of MACE and target vessel failure after six months follow-up were lower than that seen in other studies, and target lesion revascularization rates were low.
