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- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015Percutaneous Coronary Interventions without on-site cardiac surgery standby: a word of cautionShow More
Dear Editor,
We congratulate the work by Dr. Carlsson et al. about the safety of percutaneous coronary interventions(PCI) in an hospital with or without on-site cardiac surgery standby, albeit their study raises several concerns.
First, the majority of patients(nearly 80%) had 1 or 2 vessels disease and as depicted in Table 2 only around 15% of patients had 2 or vessels treated. Arguably, no fundamental da...
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