Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft for unprotected left main coronary artery disease: the endless debate.

(Total Occlusion Study of Canada) trial (24), a substudy of the OAT study, there was a trend toward more favorable remodeling. The results of the OAT study do not prove or disprove the benefits of late revascularization in patients similar to the patients in the OAT study and certainly do not apply to the entirety of post-AMI patients. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of investigators like the OAT Investigators, only 3,560 patients have been randomized to date, and they may not be enough to draw meaningful conclusions and/or identify subgroups of patients with greatest benefit or risk from late revascularization. We thank Dr. Džavı́k and colleagues for this opportunity to clarify that our analysis was not designed to prove or disprove the findings of the OAT study, which likely applies to a minority of patients after AMI. Instead, we set out to analyze all available evidence and demonstrated the benefit of late revascularization of the IRA late after AMI.