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Figure 1 Most of the 1,506 hospitals in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction-2 had the capability to perform coronary angiography (Cath-capable), angioplasty (PTCA-capable) or bypass surgery (CABG-capable). CABG = coronary artery bypass graft surgery; PTCA = percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. (From Rogers et al. [20], by permission of the American College of Cardiology.)