EDITORIAL
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction: time, time, and time!
Cardiology, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Faculté de Médecine Bichat-Beaujon, Paris, France
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Correspondence to:
Professor Philippe Gabriel Steg
Cardiologie, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75877 Paris Cedex 18, France; gabriel.steg{at}bch.aphp.fr
Longer door-to-balloon times, total duration of ischaemia, and time of presentation relative to symptom onset all have an impact on outcome following primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Abbreviations: ALKK, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitender Kardiologischer Krankenhausärzte; AMI, acute myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; GUSTO II, global use of strategies to open occluded coronary arteries; STEMI, ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction
Keywords: acute myocardial infarction; primary angioplasty; mortality; reperfusion
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