Delay From First Medical Contact to Primary PCI and All-Cause Mortality: A Nationwide Study of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

Summary, in English

Early reperfusion in the setting of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is of utmost importance. However, the effects of early versus late reperfusion in this patient group undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have so far been inconsistent in previous studies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate in a nationwide cohort the effects of delay from first medical contact to PCI (first medical contact [FMC]-to-PCI) and secondarily delay from symptom-to-PCI on clinical outcomes.

• Author: Sasha Koul; Pontus Andell; Andreas Martinsson; Gustav Smith; Jesper vanderPals; Fredrik Scherstén; Tomas Jernberg; Bo Lagerqvist; David Erlinge
• Department/s: Cardiology; EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 000486-000486
• Publication/Series: Journal of the American Heart Association
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Full text: - 825 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24595190?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.113.000486
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Topic: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2047-9980