European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(23):2520-2523; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi620
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Three-year duration of benefit from abciximab in patients receiving stents for acute myocardial infarction in the randomized double-blind ADMIRAL study
The ADMIRAL Investigators*Received 4 April 2005; revised 13 September 2005; accepted 6 October 2005; online publish-ahead-of-print 25 October 2005.
* Corresponding author. Gilles Montalescot, Institut de Cardiologie, Bureau 2-236, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié–Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 42 16 30 06; fax: +33 1 42 16 29 31. E-mail address: gilles.montalescot{at}psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
See page 2479 for the editorial comment on this article (doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi553)
Aims The Abciximab Before Direct Angioplasty and Stenting in Myocardial Infarction Regarding Acute and Long-term Follow-up (ADMIRAL) study demonstrated that early inhibition of the platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GP IIb/IIIa) receptor with abciximab led to improved coronary patency, left ventricular function, and clinical outcomes. The current long-term follow-up study evaluated the durability of the positive outcomes.
Methods and results The randomized double-blind ADMIRAL trial enrolled 300 patients who received either abciximab plus stenting or placebo plus stenting for the treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Abciximab (bolus of 0.25 mg/kg body weight, followed by 12 h infusion of 0.125 µg/kg per min) was administered to 149 patients, whereas 151 patients received placebo. Long-term follow-up was conducted in a blinded manner by either patient chart review or telephone interview. Long-term follow-up data were obtained on 288 patients (96%). After 3 years, using an intent-to-treat analysis, the outcome of all-cause mortality occurred in 9.1% of abciximab-treated patients when compared with 12.2% of placebo patients, absolute and relative risk reductions of 3.1 and 25%, respectively (P=0.36). Parallel Kaplan–Meier curves were observed for the cumulative incidence of death or re-infarction, which was reduced from 16.9% in the placebo group to 11.8% in the abciximab group, absolute and relative risk reductions of 5.1 and 30%, respectively (P=0.20). Rates of recurrent ischaemia were significantly reduced from 21.7 to 11.5% (P=0.05).
Conclusion Adjunctive abciximab to primary stenting for STEMI elicits favourable clinical outcomes with the same absolute risk reductions of hard clinical outcomes from 30 days up to 3 years of follow-up.
Key Words: STEMI • Long-term follow-up • Abciximab
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