Should primary angioplasty be available for all patients with an ST elevation myocardial infarction?
For the acute myocardial infarction patient, percutaneous coronary intervention is clearly superior to thrombolysis for many clinical end points, yet widespread availability of PCI services is still far from being realised. Published 18 November 2005 in Heart, 91(12): 1509-11. Full-text of this article is available online (may require subscription).
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