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However, the high rate of multivessel disease, lack of information on the proportion of patients who underwent complete revascularization and on how soon PCI was performed, and the fact that the population was not stratified according to clinical severity by criteria such as the GRACE score, highlight certain variables that require particular attention in the assessment and treatment of this heterogeneous patient group.</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The benefit of ACEIs/ARBs as an adjuvant therapy for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has long been known,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3–6</span></a> but conclusive evidence of their value in NSTEMI is lacking. The article by Gonzales-Cambeiro et al.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> appears to demonstrate a reduction in all-cause mortality with ACEI/ARB use in this subgroup of ACS patients. But was it the drug treatment alone that was responsible for this benefit? In our opinion there are three factors that could have biased these results: (1) the timing of PCI; (2) the completeness of revascularization; and (3) the duration of antiplatelet therapy.</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Let us now examine these three factors in detail.<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">(1)</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Analysis of the timing for invasive assessment of patients with non-ST-elevation ACS shows that the best strategy is always to perform it as soon as possible,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7,8</span></a> although in certain subgroups this is even more important, as timing can have significant effects on medium- and long-term outcome.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Earlier intervention is associated with lower mortality. Patients with higher clinical risk scores are known to benefit more from an earlier approach,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7–9</span></a> but it is these patients who frequently have to wait longer before intervention, since their circumstances are often less favorable in terms of the safety and efficacy of invasive procedures. Among such factors are female gender, advanced age, renal dysfunction and anemia. It can be a temptation not to treat these patients, because they are “too sick” or because the risk of intervention is too high.</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Consequently, many of the results obtained in groups of consecutive patients do not accurately reflect the effect on the timing of intervention of the combined effect of these different factors, however clearly each of the individual variables involved has been identified and described.</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Subgroup analysis according to risk scores and timing of intervention could help to determine the influence of different therapeutic strategies (pharmacological or otherwise) on clinical outcome and prognosis.</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">(2)</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The second factor relates to the proportion of patients with multivessel disease who did not undergo complete revascularization, which the article states was almost half of both study groups.</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The importance of complete revascularization (immediate or staged) in reducing the need for repeat revascularization is accepted in STEMI patients, but there is no solid evidence that this also applies to mortality and reinfarction.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10,11</span></a> Its impact on mortality as a single endpoint is unknown, although it has been included in combined endpoints.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12,13</span></a></p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The available evidence also supports complete revascularization in NSTEMI,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> and recent studies recommend that revascularization be performed in a single procedure, since a staged approach is associated with a higher rate of major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a></p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study by Gonzales-Cambeiro et al.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> does not specify the number of patients who underwent complete revascularization, and this may have biased the results. Patients who would benefit most from complete revascularization are often those in whom it is more difficult to perform, because of three-vessel disease, diffuse disease, left main disease, left ventricular dysfunction, and similar conditions.</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thus, as in the question of the timing of intervention, the greatest difficulty in deciding the most appropriate approach in accordance with the state of the art comes when dealing with the most complex types of patient.</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">(3)</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thirdly, it is important to discuss antiplatelet therapy, which is of great importance in patients with NSTEMI undergoing PCI.</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We know that most patients in Gonzales-Cambeiro et al.’s study<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> were under dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel at hospital discharge, but they do not state what proportion continued this therapy for the full 12 months stipulated, how many discontinued it before, or how many continued it afterwards. The first two cases can affect outcome, while recent data<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> indicate that the third could have a positive impact on prognosis in selected patients with high ischemic risk and low bleeding risk.</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally, another factor can have a significant impact on prognosis: left ventricular function. Most of the population in Gonzales-Cambeiro et al.’s study<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> had preserved (>50%) mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), with only a small proportion having LVEF ≤40% (less than 10% after propensity score matching). It thus appears that the mortality rates observed (around 16% in the untreated groups and almost 12% in the treated group), lower than the 22% predicted,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> may be related to the proportion with preserved LVEF.</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite this, ACEIs/ARBs would be expected to be less effective in patients with preserved LVEF. However, we are not told the percentage of patients who suffered reinfarction or target lesion failure during follow-up, and it is thus impossible to know how the above factors might have affected the results.</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is still considerable uncertainty concerning the treatment of NSTEMI, due mainly to the heterogeneity of its presentation and clinical course. Its poor prognosis means that improvements in treatment are particularly important. By three years after the index event, around 22% of NSTEMI patients have died.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> This figure gives us pause for thought.</p></li></ul></p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.</p></span></span>" "textoCompletoSecciones" => array:1 [ "secciones" => array:2 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0005" "titulo" => "Conflicts of interest" ] 1 => array:1 [ "titulo" => "References" ] ] ] "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "NotaPie" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "etiqueta" => "☆" "nota" => "<p class="elsevierStyleNotepara" id="npar0005">Please cite this article as: Cyrne Carvalho H. Tratamento do enfarte do miocárdio sem elevação de ST: um eterno desafio…. 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