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Percutaneous coronary intervention in the occluded artery trial: procedural suc...
Buller, C; Rankin, J; Carere, R; Buszman, P; Pfisterer, M; Dzavik, V; Thomas, B; Forman, S; Ruzyllo, W; Mancini, G; Michalis, L; Abreu, G; Lamas, GBACKGROUND: The Occluded Artery Trial (OAT) was a 2,201-patient randomized clinical trial comparing routine stent-based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus optimal medical therapy alone in stable myocardial infarction (MI) survivors with persistent infarct-related artery occlusion identified day 3 to 28 post MI. Intent-to-treat analysis showed no difference between strategies with respect to the inc...
Randomized trial of percutaneous coronary intervention for subacute infarct-rel...
Dzavík, V; Buller, C; Lamas, G; Rankin, J; Mancini, G; Cantor, W; Carere, R; Ross, J; Atchison, D; Forman, S; Thomas, B; Buszman, P; Vozzi, C; Glanz, ABACKGROUND: In the present study, we sought to determine whether opening a persistently occluded infarct-related artery (IRA) by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients beyond the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) improves patency and indices of left ventricular (LV) size and function. METHODS AND RESULTS: Between May 2000 and July 2005, 381 patients with an occluded native IRA 3 to 28 days...