TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronary Angiography After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Without ST-Segment Elevation
T2 - One-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial
AU - Desch, Steffen
AU - Freund, Anne
AU - Akin, Ibrahim
AU - Behnes, Michael
AU - Preusch, Michael R
AU - Zelniker, Thomas A
AU - Skurk, Carsten
AU - Landmesser, Ulf
AU - Graf, Tobias
AU - Eitel, Ingo
AU - Fuernau, Georg
AU - Haake, Hendrik
AU - Nordbeck, Peter
AU - Hammer, Fabian
AU - Felix, Stephan B
AU - Hassager, Christian
AU - Kjærgaard, Jesper
AU - Fichtlscherer, Stephan
AU - Ledwoch, Jakob
AU - Lenk, Karsten
AU - Joner, Michael
AU - Steiner, Stephan
AU - Liebetrau, Christoph
AU - Voigt, Ingo
AU - Zeymer, Uwe
AU - Brand, Michael
AU - Schmitz, Roland
AU - Horstkotte, Jan
AU - Jacobshagen, Claudius
AU - Pöss, Janine
AU - Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed
AU - Lurz, Philipp
AU - Jobs, Alexander
AU - de Waha, Suzanne
AU - Olbrich, Denise
AU - Sandig, Frank
AU - König, Inke R
AU - Brett, Sabine
AU - Vens, Maren
AU - Klinge, Kathrin
AU - Thiele, Holger
AU - TOMAHAWK Investigators
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - IMPORTANCE: Myocardial infarction is a frequent cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The long-term effect of early coronary angiography on patients with OHCA with possible coronary trigger but no ST-segment elevation remains unclear.OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical outcomes of early unselective angiography with the clinical outcomes of a delayed or selective approach for successfully resuscitated patients with OHCA of presumed cardiac origin without ST-segment elevation at 1-year follow-up.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The TOMAHAWK trial was a multicenter, international (Germany and Denmark), investigator-initiated, open-label, randomized clinical trial enrolling 554 patients between November 23, 2016, to September 20, 2019. Patients with stable return of spontaneous circulation after OHCA of presumed cardiac origin but without ST-segment elevation on the postresuscitation electrocardiogram were eligible for inclusion. A total of 554 patients were randomized to either immediate coronary angiography after hospital admission or an initial intensive care assessment with delayed or selective angiography after a minimum of 24 hours. All 554 patients were included in survival analyses during the follow-up period of 1 year. Secondary clinical outcomes were assessed only for participants alive at 1 year to account for the competing risk of death.INTERVENTIONS: Early vs delayed or selective coronary angiography and revascularization if indicated.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Evaluations in this secondary analysis included all-cause mortality after 1 year, as well as severe neurologic deficit, myocardial infarction, and rehospitalization for congestive heart failure in survivors at 1 year.RESULTS: A total of 281 patients were randomized to the immediate angiography group and 273 to the delayed or selective group, with a median age of 70 years (IQR, 60-78 years). A total of 369 of 530 patients (69.6%) were male, and 268 of 483 patients (55.5%) had a shockable arrest rhythm. At 1 year, all-cause mortality was 60.8% (161 of 265) in the immediate angiography group and 54.3% (144 of 265) in the delayed or selective angiography group without significant difference between the treatment strategies, trending toward an increase in mortality with immediate angiography (hazard ratio, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.99-1.57; P = .05). For patients surviving until 1 year, the rates of severe neurologic deficit, myocardial infarction, and rehospitalization for congestive heart failure were similar between the groups.CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This study found that a strategy of immediate coronary angiography does not provide clinical benefit compared with a delayed or selective invasive approach for patients 1 year after resuscitated OHCA of presumed coronary cause and without ST-segment elevation.TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02750462.
AB - IMPORTANCE: Myocardial infarction is a frequent cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The long-term effect of early coronary angiography on patients with OHCA with possible coronary trigger but no ST-segment elevation remains unclear.OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical outcomes of early unselective angiography with the clinical outcomes of a delayed or selective approach for successfully resuscitated patients with OHCA of presumed cardiac origin without ST-segment elevation at 1-year follow-up.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The TOMAHAWK trial was a multicenter, international (Germany and Denmark), investigator-initiated, open-label, randomized clinical trial enrolling 554 patients between November 23, 2016, to September 20, 2019. Patients with stable return of spontaneous circulation after OHCA of presumed cardiac origin but without ST-segment elevation on the postresuscitation electrocardiogram were eligible for inclusion. A total of 554 patients were randomized to either immediate coronary angiography after hospital admission or an initial intensive care assessment with delayed or selective angiography after a minimum of 24 hours. All 554 patients were included in survival analyses during the follow-up period of 1 year. Secondary clinical outcomes were assessed only for participants alive at 1 year to account for the competing risk of death.INTERVENTIONS: Early vs delayed or selective coronary angiography and revascularization if indicated.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Evaluations in this secondary analysis included all-cause mortality after 1 year, as well as severe neurologic deficit, myocardial infarction, and rehospitalization for congestive heart failure in survivors at 1 year.RESULTS: A total of 281 patients were randomized to the immediate angiography group and 273 to the delayed or selective group, with a median age of 70 years (IQR, 60-78 years). A total of 369 of 530 patients (69.6%) were male, and 268 of 483 patients (55.5%) had a shockable arrest rhythm. At 1 year, all-cause mortality was 60.8% (161 of 265) in the immediate angiography group and 54.3% (144 of 265) in the delayed or selective angiography group without significant difference between the treatment strategies, trending toward an increase in mortality with immediate angiography (hazard ratio, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.99-1.57; P = .05). For patients surviving until 1 year, the rates of severe neurologic deficit, myocardial infarction, and rehospitalization for congestive heart failure were similar between the groups.CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: This study found that a strategy of immediate coronary angiography does not provide clinical benefit compared with a delayed or selective invasive approach for patients 1 year after resuscitated OHCA of presumed coronary cause and without ST-segment elevation.TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02750462.
KW - Aged
KW - Coronary Angiography/adverse effects
KW - Female
KW - Heart Failure/complications
KW - Hospitalization
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Myocardial Infarction/complications
KW - Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest/diagnostic imaging
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U2 - 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.2264
DO - 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.2264
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37556123
SN - 2380-6583
VL - 8
SP - 827
EP - 834
JO - JAMA Cardiology
JF - JAMA Cardiology
IS - 9
ER -