Holger Thiele, Ibrahim Akin, Marcus Sandri, Suzanne de Waha-Thiele, Roza Meyer-Saraei, Georg Fuernau, Ingo Eitel, Peter Nordbeck, Tobias Geisler, Ulf Landmesser, Carsten Skurk, Andreas Fach, Alexander Jobs, Harald Lapp, Jan J Piek, Marko Noc, Tomaž Goslar, Stephan B Felix, Lars S Maier, Janina Stepinska, Keith Oldroyd, Pranas Serpytis, Gilles Montalescot, Olivier Barthelemy, Kurt Huber, Stephan Windecker, Lukas Hunziker, Stefano Savonitto, Patrizia Torremante, Christiaan Vrints, Steffen Schneider, Uwe Zeymer, Steffen Desch
BACKGROUND: Among patients with acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, and multivessel coronary artery disease, the risk of a composite of death from any cause or severe renal failure leading to renal-replacement therapy at 30 days was found to be lower with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the culprit lesion only than with immediate multivessel PCI. We evaluated clinical outcomes at 1 year. METHODS: We randomly assigned 706 patients to either culprit-lesion-only PCI or immediate multivessel PCI...
November 1, 2018: New England Journal of Medicine