Ten-year experience with early angioplasty in 759 patients with acute myocardial infarction
Frits Bär, MD, PhDa,
Jindra Vainer, MDa,
Jeroen Stevenhagen, MSc*,
Kars Neven, MSc*,
Rob Aalbregt, MSc*,
Ton Oude Ophuis, MD, PhD ,
Vincent van Ommen, MD, PhDa,
Hans de Swart, MDa,
Ebo de Muinck, MD, PhDa,
Willem Dassen, PhDa and
Hein Wellens, MD, PhD, FACCa
a University Hospital Maastricht and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
* Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier one-year survival curves for patients having primary PTCA (dashed line) and rescue PTCA (wavy line). The differences between the two groups are statistically not different (p = 0.24).
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