%0 Journal Article
%T Percutaneous coronary intervention with optimal medical therapy vs. optimal medical therapy alone for patients with stable angina pectoris
%A Gorenoi
%A Vitali
%A Sch£¿nermark
%A Matthias P.
%A Hagen
%A Anja
%J GMS Health Technology Assessment
%D 2011
%I German Medical Science, D¨¹sseldorf
%X Scientific background: Stable Angina Pectoris (AP) is a main syndrome of chronic coronary artery disease (CAD), a disease with enormous epidemiological and health economic relevance. Medical therapy and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) are the most important methods used in the treatment of chronic CAD. Research questions: The evaluation addresses questions on medical efficacy, incremental cost-effectiveness as well as ethic, social and legal aspects in the use of PCI in CAD patients in comparison to optimal medical therapy alone. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted in June 2010 in the electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE etc.) and was completed by a hand search. The medical analysis was initially based on systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCT) and was followed by the evaluation of RCT with use of current optimal medical therapy. The results of the RCT were combined using meta-analysis. The strength and the applicability of the determined evidence were appraised. The health economic analysis was initially focused on the published studies. Additionally, a health economic modelling was performed with clinical assumptions derived from the conducted meta-analysis and economic assumptions derived from the German Diagnosis Related Groups 2011. Results: Seven systematic reviews (applicability of the evidence low) and three RCT with use of optimal medical therapy (applicability of the evidence for the endpoints AP and revascularisations moderate, for further endpoints high) were included in the medical analysis. The results from RCT are used as a base of the evaluation. The routine use of the PCI reduces the proportion of patients with AP attacks in the follow-up after one and after three years in comparison with optimal medical therapy alone (evidence strength moderate); however, this effect was not demonstrated in the follow-up after five years (evidence strength low). The difference in effect in the follow-up after four to five years was not found for the further investigated clinical endpoints: death, cardiac death, myocardial infarction and stroke (evidence strength high) as well as for severe heart failure (evidence strength moderate). Two studies were included in the health economic analysis. The costs estimations from these studies are not directly transferable to the corresponding costs in Germany. The average difference in the total costs for PCI in comparison with optimal medical therapy alone, which was calculated in the modelling, was found to be 4,217 Euro per patient. The incremental cost-effectiveness
%K acute coronary syndrom/therapy
%K angina pectoris/*
%K angioplasty
%K balloon-dilation/therapy
%K blood flow
%K blood supply
%K CAD
%K cardiac muscle
%K circulatory disorder
%K coronary heart disease
%K cost-benefit analysis
%K drug therapy/*
%K drug therapy/*economics
%K drug-eluting stents
%K drug-eluting stents/adverse effects
%K drug-eluting stents/economics
%K drug-eluting stents/utilization
%K Germany
%K health economic analysis
%K heart diseases/*
%K humans
%K ischemia
%K medicamental therapy
%K meta analysis
%K meta analys
%U http://www.egms.de/en/journals/hta/2011-7/hta000098.shtml