Randomized Trial of Preventive Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1305520
This recent study published in the NEJM, shows that in patients with acute STEMI, the use of preventive PCI to treat non-target coronary-artery stenosis, immediately after PCI in the target artery had substantial advantage over target-vessel-only PCI. The combined rate of cardiac death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or refractory angina was reduced by 65%, an absolute risk reduction of 14 percentage points over 23 months.
Would you consider the preventive PCI?
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. K. Ashutosh Source Type: forums