Journal article
Percutaneous revascularization and long term clinical outcomes of diabetic patients randomized in the Occluded Artery Trial (OAT)
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of a persistently totally occluded infarct-related artery (IRA) in stable high-risk patients >24h after myocardial infarction (MI) does not reduce the occurrence of death, re-infarction, or heart failure. Diabetic patients are at higher risk for cardiovascular events; we examined their outcomes overall with PCI and optimal medical therapy alone (MED).
METHODS: The long-term (7-year) outcomes …
Authors
Overgaard CB; Džavík V; Buller CE; Liu L; Banasiak W; Devlin G; Maggioni AP; Leor J; Burton JR; Reis G
Journal
International Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 168, No. 3, pp. 2416–2422
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.02.004
ISSN
0167-5273