NEW YORK, June 14 (
Primary angioplasty
NEW YORK, June 14 (Praxis Press) Rapid reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction (MI) using thrombolytic therapy reduces mortality, but whether time to primary angioplasty is also related to mortality is unclear. Investigators examined 27,080 patients with acute MI associated with ST-segment elevation or left bundle-branch block who were treated with angioplasty (see paper). Cannon and colleagues found that the odds of in-hospital mortality increased from 41% to 62% when the time to primary
