BackgroundShort-termhospitalreadmissionsafterpercutaneouscoronaryintervention(PCI)accountforhighermedicalcostsandpoorprognosisofpatientswithcoronaryarterydisease(CAD).However,patientsathighriskforreadmissionarenotyetidentified.MethodsAtotalof1416patientssuccessfullytreatedwithPCIwereincluded.Dataofage,sex,presentationtypeofCAD,cardiacfunction,coexistentdiseases,contrastdose,numbersoflesionsandstentsimplanted,procedurecomplication,out-of-hospitalmedicationwerecollected.Coxregressionmodelwasemployedtoanalyzethemultiplefactorsinfluencingreadmission.Results75.8%ofallreadmissionswereduetoCADandtheaveragereadmissiontimewas422days.UnivariateanalysisandmultivariateCoxregressionmodeleventuallyshowedthatpatientswithanyprocedurecomplicationsand/ormorelesionsinnumberwereathigherriskforreadmissionwhileolderage,smoke,urgentPCIandmorestentsimplantedpreventedthemfromreadmitting.ConclusionThemajorcauseofreadmissionafterPCIisstillCADitself.DuringtheindexhospitalizationofPCI,patientswithmulti-vesseldiseaseneedcarefultreatmentandprocedurecomplicationsshouldbepreventedinordertoextendtheintervalofreadmission.
