Abstract
Background: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed in large community hospitals without cardiac surgery back-up facilities (off-site) reduces door-to-balloon time compared with emergency transferal to tertiary interventional centers (on-site). The present study was performed to explore whether off-site PCI for acute myocardial infarction results in reduced infarct size. Methods and results: One hundred twenty-eight patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction were randomly assigned to undergo primary PCI at the off-site center (n=68) or to transferal to an on-site center (n=60). Three days after PCI,
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 237-243 |
Journal | European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |