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Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), when performed by an experienced team in a timely fashion, is a better reperfusion therapy than in-hospital thrombolysis in patients who have acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation.^1,2 Although randomized trials of primary balloon angioplasty and primary stenting have not demonstrated a mortality benefit of primary stenting and have shown conflicting results with regard to the risk of reinfarction,^3,4 primary stenting of the infarct-related lesion has become standard treatment in most patients undergoing primary PCI.

Drug-eluting stents significantly reduce the risks of both restenosis and target-vessel revascularization after elective PCI, as compared with uncoated stents.^5,6 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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