Table 3 Patients’ angiographic and procedure characteristics of total studied patients, unlikely/possible FH, and probable/definite FH groups.

From: Clinical and angiographic characteristics of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Variables

Total

(n = 690)

Unlikely/possible FH

(n = 594)

Probable/definite FH

(n = 96)

P-value

Infarcted-related artery

    

LAD

413 (59.9)

349 (58.8)

64 (66.7)

0.462

LCx

98 (14.2)

89 (15.0)

9 (9.4)

RCA

167 (24.2)

144 (24.2)

23 (24.0)

Ramus

9 (1.3)

9 (1.5)

0 (0.0)

LM

2 (0.3)

2 (0.3)

0 (0.0)

Not identified

1 (0.1)

1 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

Number of diseased vessels

    

One vessel disease

302 (43.8%)

265 (44.6%)

37 (38.5%)

0.026

Two vessel disease

256 (37.1%)

225 (37.9%)

31 (32.3%)

Three vessel disease

132 (19.1%)

104 (17.5%)

28 (29.2%)

Syntax score

19.53 ± 5.5

18.66 ± 4.9

24.91 ± 5.8

< 0.001

Thrombus burden grade

    

0

54 (7.8%)

47 (7.9%)

7 (7.3%)

0.024

1

174 (21.3%)

133 (22.4%)

15 (15.6%)

2

331 (48%)

290 (48.8%)

40 (41.7%)

3

84 (12.2%)

68 (11.4%)

16 (16.7%)

4

74 (10.7%)

56 (9.4%)

18 (18.8%)

High thrombus burden

74 (10.7%)

56 (9.4%)

18 (18.8%)

0.006

Thrombus aspiration device

9 (1.3%)

5 (0.8%)

4 (4.2%)

0.008

Number of used stents

1.16 ± 0.5

1.17 ± 0.5

1.11 ± 0.6

0.354

Final TIMI flow grade

    

0

14 (2)

11 (1.9)

3 (3.1)

0.035

I

21 (3)

16 (2.7)

5 (5.2)

II

71 (10.3)

57 (9.6)

14 (14.6)

III

584 (84.6)

510 (85.9)

74 (77.1)

Final TIMI flow slow/no-reflow

106 (15.4%)

84 (14.1%)

22 (22.9%)

0.027

Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors

259 (37.5%)

215 (36.2%)

44 (45.8%)

0.070

  1. Data are expressed in the form of mean ± standard deviation or frequency (%).
  2. LAD: left anterior descending; LCx: left circumflex; LM: left main; RCA: right coronary artery; TIMI: thrombolysis in myocardial infarction.