Objectives: The goal of this study was to describe the core laboratory angiographic findings of "SHould we emergently revascularize Occluded Coronaries for cardiogenic shocK" (SHOCK) trial participants and to determine the relationship of angiographic parameters to one-year survival.
Background: In the SHOCK trial, emergency revascularization improved one-year survival of patients with cardiogenic shock compared with initial medical stabilization including thrombolysis and intraaortic balloon counterpulsation.
Methods: Coronary angiography was performed by protocol in 147 of 152 (97%) patients in the emergency revascularization (ERV) group and by clinical selection in 100 of 150 (67%) patients in the initial medical stabilization (IMS) group. Of the other 50 IMS patients, 45 of 50 (90%) died rapidly and did not undergo angiography.
Results: Left ventricular ejection fraction was correlated with one-year survival in both treatment groups (p < 0.001). In the IMS group, the hazard ratio for death was 2.59 (95% confidence interval 1.47 to 4.58, p = 0.001) per diseased vessel (0/1 vs. 2 vs. 3). In the ERV group, the hazard ratio for death per diseased vessel was 1.11 (95% confidence interval 0.79 to 1.56, p = 0.559). Multivariate analysis of the angiography cohort (without regard for left ventriculogram measurements) identified initial Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction flow grade (p = 0.032), number of diseased vessels (for IMS patients only, p = 0.024), and culprit vessel (p = 0.004) as independent correlates of one-year survival, even after adjustment for key clinical factors. In the smaller cohort with left ventricular ejection fraction measured (n = 97), ejection fraction and culprit vessel remained independently correlated with survival.
Conclusions: For patients in cardiogenic shock, left ventricular function and culprit vessel were independent correlates of one-year survival.
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