Percutaneous revascularisation of multivessel coronary disease with systematic stenting.

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the immediate and medium- term clinical and angiographic results of multiple angioplasty with stentin g in 100 consecutive patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. The mean age of the population was 62 +/- 11 years. Two hundred and eight l esions were treated (2.5 +/- 0.7 per patient) with implantation of 1.14 +/- 0.4 stents per lesion. The angiographic success rate was 98.7%. There were S major complications in the hospital period : 3 deaths, including 2 of ca rdiac causes, one coronary bypass procedure and one a wave myocardial infar ction. During follow-up (17 +/- 6 months), eight patients died (5 of cardia c causes) and secondary revascularisation procedures were required in 22 pa tients. At 6 months, the angiographic restenosis rate was 32% per lesion, 2 8.8% per stent and 33 patients had at least one restenosis.