Arterial access and door-to-balloon times for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Arterial access and door-to-balloon times for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Aaron N. Weaver, Rick A. Henderson, Ian C. Gilchrist, Steven M. Ettinger, Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem,…

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Coronary intervention with 4-French catheters.

Coronary intervention with 4-French catheters. Satoshi Takeshita, Shinji Tanaka, Shigeru Saito, Department of Cardiology and Catheterization Laboratory, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.   OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether 4-Fr percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with technical difficulties that might have an unfavorable impact on procedural parameters. BACKGROUND: Four-Fr PCI is often associated…

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Mortality and Morbidity Reduction by Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Is Independent of the Patient’s Age.

Sanneke P.M. de Boer, Cynthia M. Westerhout, R. John Simes, Christopher B. Granger, Felix Zijlstra, Eric Boersma, for the PCAT-2 (Primary Coronary Angioplasty Versus Thrombolysis-2) Trialists Collaborators Group, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney, Australia, Duke University Medical Center,…

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