On-treatment platelet reactivity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Thorax. 2014 Jan;69(1):80-1. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203608. Epub 2013 Jul 22.

Abstract

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show a poor prognosis after myocardial infarction (MI) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We evaluated on-treatment platelet reactivity (PR) and several gene polymorphisms related to PR in 130 patients undergoing PCI with and without COPD. Those with concomitant COPD showed higher on-treatment PR values both at the time of PCI and 1 month after. This finding may contribute to explain the poor prognosis of COPD patients after MI and PCI.

Keywords: COPD epidemiology.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / drug therapy
  • Myocardial Infarction / epidemiology*
  • Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
  • Myocardial Infarction / therapy
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  • Platelet Activation / drug effects
  • Platelet Activation / physiology*
  • Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Prognosis
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / epidemiology*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / physiopathology*

Substances

  • Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors