Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has good success and acceptable mortality in patients aged 80 years or more. But an acute or recent myocardial infarction increases the risk of in-hospital death substantially, a team of American cardiologists reports.
The cardiologists are based at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, California; the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; the Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York.
They noted that previous studies of PCI in old people, which had shown increased in-hospital mortality, were limited by small population size. This led them to evaluate the results of PCI in elderly patients in contemporary practice.
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