Barbara E Stähli, Ferdinando Varbella, Axel Linke, Bettina Schwarz, Stephan B Felix, Moritz Seiffert, Rahel Kesterke, Peter Nordbeck, Bernhard Witzenbichler, Irene M Lang, Mirjam Kessler, Christian Valina, Alban Dibra, Miklos Rohla, Marco Moccetti, Matteo Vercellino, Luise Gaede, Lorenz Bott-Flügel, Philipp Jakob, Julia Stehli, Alessandro Candreva, Christian Templin, Matthias Schindler, Manfred Wischnewsky, Greca Zanda, Giorgio Quadri, Norman Mangner, Aurel Toma, Giulia Magnani, Peter Clemmensen, Thomas F Lüscher, Thomas Münzel, P Christian Schulze, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Kurt Huber, Franz-Josef Neumann, Steffen Schneider, Franz Weidinger, Stephan Achenbach, Gert Richardt, Adnan Kastrati, Ian Ford, Willibald Maier, Frank Ruschitzka
BACKGROUND: In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with multivessel coronary artery disease, the time at which complete revascularization of nonculprit lesions should be performed remains unknown. METHODS: We performed an international, open-label, randomized, noninferiority trial at 37 sites in Europe. Patients in a hemodynamically stable condition who had STEMI and multivessel coronary artery disease were randomly assigned to undergo immediate multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; immediate group) or PCI of the culprit lesion followed by staged multivessel PCI of nonculprit lesions within 19 to 45 days after the index procedure (staged group)...
August 27, 2023: New England Journal of Medicine