OBJECTIVES. To review the 10-year trend of reperfusion strategies in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, and the adoption rate of percutaneous coronary interventions as opposed to thrombolytic therapy. Also to explore why some patients did not receive reperfusion therapy, and document changes in reperfusion strategies after the introduction of primary percutaneous coronary...

background: the optimal strategy in percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) for coronary artery bifurcation lesions has yet to be agreed upon. we compared a strategy for stenting the main vessel to provide a complete perfusion flow in the side branch, namely thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) - iii, with a strategy for intervention in both the main vessel and the side branch (mv + sb...