ACP Journal Club. Nonemergency PCI without onsite cardiac surgery was noninferior to PCI with onsite services for MACE.

نویسندگان

  • Siddharth A Wayangankar
  • Herbert D Aronow
چکیده

Patients: 3691 patients (mean age 65 y, 68% men) who had diagnostic catheterization for coronary artery disease in a hospital without onsite cardiac surgery services. Exclusion criteria included left ventricular ejection fraction < 20% and target lesions with ≥ 1 of the following: saphenous vein graft location, vessel serving the only viable myocardium, unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis > 50%, or procedure other than balloon angioplasty before stent placement.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of internal medicine

دوره 159 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013