Angiographic no-reflow phenomenon as a predictor of adverse long-term outcome in patients treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for first acute myocardial infarction
Itsuro Morishima, MD*,
Takahito Sone, MD ,
Kenji Okumura, MD*,
Hideyuki Tsuboi, MD ,
Junichiro Kondo, MD ,
Hiroaki Mukawa, MD ,
Hideo Matsui, MD*,
Yukio Toki, MD*,
Takayuki Ito, MD and
Tetsuo Hayakawa, MD, PhD*
* Department of Internal Medicine II, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Health Sciences, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Department of Cardiology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital, Ogaki, Japan

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier cardiac survival curves following the index hospitalization; a comparison of patients with no-reflow versus reflow.
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Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier cardiac event-free survival curves following the index hospitalization; a comparison of patients with no-reflow versus reflow. Cardiac events include cardiac death, recurrent acute myocardial infarction, malignant arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure.
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