Cangrelor With and Without Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 176 - 185
• Main Authors: Vaduganathan, Muthiah, Deliargyris, Efthymios N., Price, Matthew J., Menozzi, Alberto, Álvarez, Carlos Alejandro, Dick, Ronald, Cross, David, Thompson, Peter, Altenberger, Johann, Godinho, Antonio, Precoma, Dalton, Carvalho, Antônio, Chapidze, Gulnara, Heuer, Hubertus, Genth-Zotz, Sabine, Moebius-Winkler, Sven, Buerke, Michael, Hoffmann, Stefan, Moellmann, Helge, Katus, Hugo, Klauss, Volker, Hiremath, Shirish, Sethi, Kamal, Dudek, Dariusz, Gasior, Zbigniew, Kornacewicz-Jach, Zdzislawa, Ostrowski, Jakub, Tendera, Michal, Zmudka, Krzysztof, Kosmider, Maciej, Melgares, Rafael, Goicolea, Francisco, Niederman, Alan, Negus, Brian, Paulowski, John, Pollack, Charles, Spriggs, Douglas, Chavez, Ivan, Waksman, Ron, Henderson, Joseph, Pacifico, Luigi, Andreou, Costa, Batchelor, Wayne, Wang, John, Winters, Rex, Jenkins, Stephen, Cannon, Louis, Westerhausen, Don, McLaurin, Brent, Shroff, Adhir, Pow, Thomas, O'Shaughnessy, Charles, Shaikh, Saeed R., Lawrence, Mark, Pocovi, Antonio, Londero, Hugo, Airton, José, Jorgova, Julia, Rifai, Nizar, Klimsa, Zdenek, Branny, Marian, Jain, Rajesh, Baum, Svetlana, Kosmachova, Elena, Markov, Valentin, Chernov, Sergey, Cha, Kwang-Soo, Youn, Tae Jin, Hur, Seung-Ho, Pyun, Wook-Bum, Choe, Hyunmin, Jeong, Myung-Ho, Figueras, Jaume, Chamnarnphol, Noppadol, Lui, Charles, Breall, Jeffrey, Istfan, Pierre, Sklar, Joel, Lundstrom, Robert, Brilakis, Emmanouil, Quealy, Kathleen, Mann, J. Tift, Khabeishvili, George, Behrens, Steffen, Dissmann, Martin, Franz, Wolfgang, Mugge, Andreas, Poerner, Tudor, Richardt, Gert, Bramucci, Ezio, Dubaniewicz, Witold, Trebacz, Jaroslaw, Witkowski, Adam, Dovgalevsky, Yakov, Kaewsuwanna, Pinij, Jafar, Zubair, Lipsitt, Michael, Martinez-Arraras, Joaquin, Siegel, Craig, Tauth, Jeffrey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 17.01.2017; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Acute coronary syndromes; Adenosine Monophosphate - adverse effects; Adenosine Monophosphate - analogs & derivatives; Adenosine Monophosphate - therapeutic use; Aged; Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary - methods; antiplatelet therapy; Aspirin - adverse effects; Aspirin - therapeutic use; Bailouts; bleeding; Cardiology; Cardiovascular; Clopidogrel; Cohort Studies; Consortia; coronary artery disease; Coronary vessels; Double-Blind Method; Drug dosages; Drug Therapy, Combination; Female; Heart attacks; Hemorrhage - chemically induced; Humans; Infusions, Intravenous; Intubation; Ischemia; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Myocardial Ischemia - prevention & control; outcomes; Patients; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - adverse effects; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Platelet Glycoprotein GPIIb-IIIa Complex - antagonists & inhibitors; Prospective Studies; Stents; Studies; Thrombosis; Ticlopidine - adverse effects; Ticlopidine - analogs & derivatives; Ticlopidine - therapeutic use; Treatment Outcome; Veins & arteries; United States > US; coronary artery disease; GPI; ST; bleeding; OR; CI; antiplatelet therapy; mITT; GUSTO; outcomes; CHAMPION; PCI; MI; Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries; myocardial infarction; odds ratio; percutaneous coronary intervention; stent thrombosis; Cangrelor versus Standard Therapy to Achieve Optimal Management of Platelet Inhibition; confidence interval; modified intention-to-treat; glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor
• ISSN: 0735-1097; 1558-3597; 1558-3597
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.10.055

Cangrelor, an intravenous, reversible P2Y12 antagonist, is approved for use in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This study sought to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cangrelor compared with clopidogrel in subgroups that did and did not receive glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs). This pooled, patient-level analysis of the 3 CHAMPION (Cangrelor versus Standard Therapy to Achieve Optimal Management of Platelet Inhibition) trials analyzed all randomized patients who underwent PCI and received the study drug (n = 24,902). Only bailout/rescue GPI use was permitted, except in CHAMPION PCI, in which routine or bailout/rescue GPI use was at the site investigator’s discretion. The primary efficacy endpoint was the composite of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, ischemia-driven revascularization, or stent thrombosis at 48 h after randomization. Overall, 3,173 patients (12.7%) received a GPI, most commonly eptifibatide (69.4%). Despite variation in indications for GPIs, baseline characteristics were well balanced between the cangrelor and clopidogrel arms in subsets receiving and not receiving GPIs. Rates of the primary composite endpoint were lower with cangrelor compared with clopidogrel in patients who did (4.9% vs. 6.5%; odds ratio [OR]: 0.74; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.55 to 1.01) or did not receive a GPI (3.6% vs. 4.4%; OR: 0.82; 95% CI: 0.72 to 0.94; Pint = 0.55). Cangrelor did not increase the primary safety endpoint, GUSTO-defined severe/life-threatening bleeding, in patients who did (0.4% vs. 0.5%; OR: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.25 to 1.99) or did not receive GPIs (0.2% vs. 0.1%; OR: 1.56; 95% CI: 0.80 to 3.04; Pint = 0.21). GPI use was associated with increased risk of bleeding in both treatment arms. Cangrelor’s efficacy in reducing ischemic complications in patients undergoing PCI was maintained irrespective of GPI administration. GPI use was associated with substantially higher bleeding rates, regardless of the randomization to cangrelor or clopidogrel. (A Clinical Trial to Demonstrate the Efficacy of Cangrelor [PCI]: NCT00305162; Cangrelor Versus Standard Therapy to Achieve Optimal Management of Platelet Inhibition [PLATFORM]: NCT00385138; A Clinical Trial Comparing Cangrelor to Clopidogrel Standard Therapy in Subjects Who Require Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [PCI] [CHAMPION PHOENIX] [CHAMPION]: NCT01156571) [Display omitted]