Coronary Intervention for Persistent Occlusion after Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Judith S. Hochman,
Gervasio A. Lamas,
Christopher E. Buller,
Vladimír Džavík,
Harmony R. Reynolds,
S. Abramsky,
Sandra Forman,
Witold Rużyłło,
Aldo P. Maggioni,
Harvey D. White,
Zygmunt Sadowski,
Antônio Carlos Carvalho,
Jamie Rankin,
Jean Renkin,
Philippe Gabríel Steg,
Alice M. Mascette,
George Sopko,
Matthias Pfisterer,
Jonathan Leor,
Viliam Fridrich,
Daniel B. Mark,
Genell L. Knatterud
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa066139
Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , myocardial infarction , hazard ratio , percutaneous coronary intervention , cardiology , ejection fraction , heart failure , confidence interval
It is unclear whether stable, high-risk patients with persistent total occlusion of the infarct-related coronary artery identified after the currently accepted period for myocardial salvage has passed should undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in addition to receiving optimal medical therapy to reduce the risk of subsequent events.
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