AHA 2005

Primary PCI: Better in the Real World, Too

November 17, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Primary angioplasty after a myocardial infarction is also better than thrombolysis in a real world setting: though up to two hours after the infarction the two methods are equivalent, according to Swedish findings from a study of 21 000 patients. Ulf Stenestrand of University Hospital in Linköping presented the results.

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