• Masato Nakamura, Raisuke Iijima, Junya Ako, Toshiro Shinke, Hisayuki Okada, Yoshiaki Ito, Kenji Ando, Hitoshi Anzai, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yasunori Ueda, Shin Takiuchi, Yasunori Nishida, Hiroshi Ohira, Katsuhiro Kawaguchi, Makoto Kadotani, Hiroyuki Niinuma, Kazuto Omiya, Takashi Morita, Kan Zen, Yoshinori Yasaka, Kenji Inoue, Sugao Ishiwata, Masahiko Ochiai, Toshimitsu Hamasaki, Hiroyoshi Yokoi, and NIPPON Investigators.
• Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: masato@oha.toho-u.ac.jp.
• JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 Jun 26; 10 (12): 1189-1198.

ObjectivesThe NIPPON (Nobori Dual Antiplatelet Therapy as Appropriate Duration) study was a multicenter randomized investigation of the noninferiority of short-term versus long-term dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in patients with implantation of the Nobori drug-eluting stent (DES) (Terumo, Tokyo, Japan), which has a biodegradable abluminal coating.BackgroundThe optimum duration of DAPT for patients with a biodegradable polymer-coated DES is unclear.MethodsThe subjects were 3,773 patients with stable or acute coronary syndromes undergoing Nobori stent implantation. They were randomized 1:1 to receive DAPT for 6 or 18 months. The primary endpoint was net adverse clinical and cerebrovascular events (NACCE) (all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke, and major bleeding) from 6 to 18 months after stenting. Intention-to-treat analysis was performed in 3,307 patients who were followed for at least 6 months.ResultsNACCE occurred in 34 patients (2.1%) receiving short-term DAPT and 24 patients (1.5%) receiving long-term DAPT (difference 0.6%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.5 to 0.3). Because the lower limit of the 95% CI was inside the specified margin of -2%, noninferiority of short-term DAPT was confirmed. Mortality was 1.0% with short-term DAPT versus 0.4% with long-term DAPT, whereas myocardial infarction was 0.2% versus 0.1%, and major bleeding was 0.7% versus 0.7%, respectively. The estimated probability of NACCE was lower in the long-term DAPT group (hazard ratio: 1.44, 95% CI: 0.86 to 2.43).ConclusionsSix months of DAPT was not inferior to 18 months of DAPT following implantation of a DES with a biodegradable abluminal coating. However, this result needs to be interpreted with caution given the open-label design and wide noninferiority margin of the present study. (Nobori Dual Antiplatelet Therapy as Appropriate Duration [NIPPON]; NCT01514227).Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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