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Relationship of treatment delays and mortality in patients undergoing fibrinolysis and primary percutaneous coronary intervention. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events
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Dear Editor,
I read with interest, the recent original article by Nallamothu et al. The authors report higher 6-month mortality in both fibrinolysis and PPCI patients (p < 0.001 for both cohorts) with long treatment delays. For patients who received fibrinolytic therapy, 6-month mortality increased by 0.30% per 10-min delay in door-to-needle time between 30 and 60 min compared with 0.18% per 10-min delay in doo...
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