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Long-term follow-up after direct percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction

^a Medizinische Klinik I, Zentrum Innere Medizin, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

View larger version (10K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan–Meyer analysis of total mortality in 416 patients with acute MI treated with direct percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (dotted line) and in a subgroup of 392 patients discharged alive (solid line).

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan–Meyer analysis of the incidence of cardiac reinterventions in 392 patients discharged after acute MI treated with direct percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.