# POST-PCI: routine functionele testen versus standaardzorg na PCI bij hoog risico

*geplaatst 2022-09-08 · Algemeen · The New England journal of medicine · doi 10.1056/NEJMoa2208335 · https://hartvaat.nl/2022/09/08/post-pci-routine-functionele-testen-versus-standaardzorg-na-pci-bij-hoog-risico/*

De POST-PCI-trial in de NEJM toonde dat routinematige functionele testen na PCI bij hoogrisicopatiënten niet leidde tot betere klinische uitkomsten vergeleken met standaardzorg. Dit pleit tegen routinematige stresstesten in de follow-up na succesvolle PCI.

## English: Routine Functional Testing or Standard Care in High-Risk Patients after PCI.

The POST-PCI trial demonstrated that routine functional testing after PCI in high-risk patients did not improve clinical outcomes compared with standard care at 2 years. The results argued against routine surveillance testing as a post-PCI follow-up strategy.

## Abstract (original, from the publication)

BACKGROUND: There are limited data from randomized trials to guide a specific follow-up surveillance approach after myocardial revascularization. Whether a follow-up strategy that includes routine functional testing improves clinical outcomes among high-risk patients who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is uncertain. METHODS: We randomly assigned 1706 patients with high-risk anatomical or clinical characteristics who had undergone PCI to a follow-up strategy of routine functional testing (nuclear stress testing, exercise electrocardiography, or stress echocardiography) at 1 year after PCI or to standard care alone. The primary outcome was a composite of death from any cause, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for unstable angina at 2 years. Key secondary outcomes included invasive coronary angiography and repeat revascularization. RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 64.7 years, 21.0% had left main disease, 43.5% had bifurcation disease, 69.8% had multivessel disease, 70.1% had diffuse long lesions, 38.7% had diabetes, and 96.4% had been treated with drug-eluting stents. At 2 years, a primary-outcome event had occurred in 46 of 849 patients (Kaplan-Meier estimate, 5.5%) in the functional-testing group and in 51 of 857 (Kaplan-Meier estimate, 6.0%) in the standard-care group (hazard ratio, 0.90; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.61 to 1.35; P = 0.62). There were no between-group differences with respect to the components of the primary outcome. At 2 years, 12.3% of the patients in the functional-testing group and 9.3% in the standard-care group had undergone invasive coronary angiography (difference, 2.99 percentage points; 95% CI, -0.01 to 5.99), and 8.1% and 5.8% of patients, respectively, had undergone repeat revascularization (difference, 2.23 percentage points; 95% CI, -0.22 to 4.68). CONCLUSIONS: Among high-risk patients who had undergone PCI, a follow-up strategy of routine functional testing, as compared with standard care alone, did not improve clinical outcomes at 2 years. (Funded by the CardioVascular Research Foundation and Daewoong Pharmaceutical; POST-PCI ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03217877.).

Auteurs: Duk-Woo Park, Do-Yoon Kang, Jung-Min Ahn, Sung-Cheol Yun, Yong-Hoon Yoon, Seung-Ho Hur, Cheol Hyun Lee, Won-Jang Kim, Se Hun Kang, Chul Soo Park, Bong-Ki Lee, Jung-Won Suh, Jung Han Yoon, Jae Woong Choi, Kee-Sik Kim, Si Wan Choi, Su Nam Lee, Seung-Jung Park

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