The article reports on a retrospective study which was designed to compare major cardiovascular events of all-comer population of saphenous vein graft (svg) percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) with and without embolic protection devices (epds) at one year of follow-up.A total of 792 patients who received isolated svg pci were included.Spider fx was identified as en epd type used in the study.Epds were used in 190 (23.9%) patients.During the procedures where a epd was used, pre-dilation was performed in 29.5% of cases, and thrombectomy in 5.4% of cases.On average 1 stent was implanted and 2.6% of patients presented with residual stenosis.Vessel perforation is reported in 0.5% of cases and dissection in 2.1% of cases.0.5% of patient experienced cardiac arrest.The primary endpoint of the study (1-year overall macce) was observed in 20.5% of patients in the epds pci group, and in 26.4% of patients in the no-epds pci group.Within the epd group there were 8 deaths, 14 myocardial infarction¿s (mi¿s), 2 strokes, 17 target vessel revascularization (tvr¿s), and 13 target lesion revascularization (tlr¿s) reported.The main finding of svg pci protecta study was that during svg pci the use of epds was associated with comparable results to no-epds in all-comers population at 1-year follow-up.The article concludes that the use of epds was not associated with any significant improvement in macce in an all-comers population both at 30-days and one year follow-up.
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