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To the Editor: Bradley et al. (Nov. 30 issue)¹ have analyzed strategies to reduce the interval between arrival at the hospital and intracoronary balloon inflation (door-to-balloon time) in primary angioplasty in a large multicenter series. However, use of the median in this and other analyses has limitations. Reperfusion-time distributions are skewed, with a tail to the right representing patients who have a long wait. Such patients may have significantly detrimental effects,² alluded to in the accompanying editorial by Moscucci and Eagle,³ as compared with those who undergo timely thrombolysis.⁴ Neither the length of the delay nor the number of patients . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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