title: Outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction who are ineligible for primary angioplasty trials.
abstract: We determined acute outcome in 148 consecutive patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing angioplasty including 72 patients (48.7%) considered ineligible for primary angioplasty trials. Overall, in-hospital mortality for acute infarct angioplasty was 12%, with fivefold higher mortality in the trial-ineligible group (21% vs. 4%, P = 0.003). Thus, primary angioplasty trials continue to exclude nearly 50% of acute infarction patients and reported mortality rates of primary angioplasty trials are likely to be significantly lower than the unselected in-hospital mortality rates. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervent. 49:237-243, 2000.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. hdauerman@msn.com
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Dauerman
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Kuntz
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Baim
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Carrozza
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000401:mortality*; D001900:Boston; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D018579:Patient Selection; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome