アブストラクト | INTRODUCTION: The association between the use of cilostazol as a post-stroke antiplatelet medication and a reduction in post-stroke pneumonia has been suggested. However, whether cilostazol has a greater preventive effect against post-stroke aspiration pneumonia (AP) than other antiplatelet medications remains unclear. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate whether cilostazol has a greater preventive effect against post-stroke AP than aspirin or clopidogrel. METHODS: Through the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database, we identified patients who were hospitalized for ischemic stroke between April 2012 and September 2019. We performed 1:1 propensity score matching between patients who received cilostazol alone at discharge and those who received aspirin or clopidogrel alone at discharge. The primary outcome was the 90-day readmission for post-stroke AP. The occurrence of recurrent ischemic stroke within 90 days was also evaluated. RESULTS: Among the 305,543 eligible patients with ischemic stroke, 65,141 (21%), 104,157 (34%), and 136,245 (45%) received cilostazol, aspirin, and clopidogrel, respectively. Propensity score matching generated 65,125 pairs. The cilostazol group had a higher proportion of 90-day post-stroke readmissions with AP than the aspirin or clopidogrel groups (1.5% vs. 1.2%, p < 0.001). The proportion of patients with recurrent ischemic stroke within 90 days was also higher in the cilostazol group (2.4% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.017). CONCLUSION: The present study suggests that cilostazol may not have a greater effect on preventing post-stroke AP within 90 days than other antiplatelet medications. Nevertheless, further randomized controlled trials with longer follow-up periods are warranted. |
ジャーナル名 | Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) |
Pubmed追加日 | 2023/8/17 |
投稿者 | Sato, So; Yamana, Hayato; Kumazawa, Ryosuke; Watanabe, Hideaki; Fujita, Asahi; Matsui, Hiroki; Fushimi, Kiyohide; Yasunaga, Hideo |
組織名 | Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, Graduate School of;Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.;Data Science Center, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.;Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine,;Tokyo, Japan.;Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of;Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.;Department of Health Informatics and Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo;Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37586338/ |