Journal article
Clinical outcomes and cost implications of routine early PCI after fibrinolysis: One-year follow-up of the Trial of Routine Angioplasty and Stenting after Fibrinolysis to Enhance Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TRANSFER-AMI) study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with fibrinolysis, routine early percutaneous coronary intervention (r-PCI) improves clinical outcomes at 30 days compared with a more standard approach of performing early PCI only for failed fibrinolysis (s-PCI).
METHODS: We report prespecified secondary clinical outcomes and cost implications of r-PCI compared with s-PCI from the Canadian TRANSFER-AMI trial. Average cost …
Authors
Bagai A; Cantor WJ; Tan M; Tong W; Lamy A; Fitchett D; Cohen EA; Mehta SR; Borgundvaag B; Ducas J
Journal
American Heart Journal, Vol. 165, No. 4, pp. 630–637.e2
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.ahj.2012.12.016
ISSN
0002-8703