Heart failure & cardiomyopathiesSecondary analysis

Viability and Outcomes With Revascularization or Medical Therapy in Ischemic Ventricular Dysfunction

JAMA CardiolPublished

  • Secondary analysis of the REVIVED-BCIS2 randomised trial
  • open-label
  • subgroup analysis
  • blinded core laboratory viability analysis
  • 40 UK centres

Authors' conclusion

This study found that viability testing does not identify patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy who benefit from PCI. The extent of nonviable myocardium, but not the extent of viable myocardium, is associated with event-free survival and likelihood of improvement of left ventricular function.

Study context

Population
Patients with LVEF ≤35%, extensive CAD and viability in ≥4 dysfunctional myocardial segments, with blinded core laboratory viability characterizationof 700 randomised
Participants
610 patients
Comparison
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs Optimal medical therapy
  • PCIn = 295
  • Optimal medical therapyn = 315reference
Primary endpoint
All-cause death or hospitalization for HF

Primary result

As reported in the abstract

All-cause death or HF hospitalization, by extent of viable and nonviable myocardium

PCI

107

events

Optimal medical therapy

114

events

whole study population
Hazard ratio (95% CI)
Viable myocardium (per 10% increase)
0.98(0.93–1.04)
Nonviable myocardium vs Optimal medical therapy
1.07(1.00–1.15)

Secondary outcomes

All-cause death, CV death, HF hospitalization, improved LV function at 6 months

Extent of viable myocardium not associated with any secondary outcome
Extent of nonviable myocardium associated with all-cause death, CV death and improvement in LV function

Original publication

Viability and Outcomes With Revascularization or Medical Therapy in Ischemic Ventricular Dysfunction. JAMA Cardiol. Published 1 December 2023. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2023.3803

Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it