Beneficial effects of immediate stenting after thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction
Bruno Scheller, MD*,*,
Benno Hennen, MD*,
Bernd Hammer, MD*,
Jürgen Walle, MD ,
Christian Hofer, MD ,
Volker Hilpert, MD ,
Horst Winter, MD||,
Georg Nickenig, MD*,
Michael Böhm, MD* SIAM III Study Group
* Innere Medizin III, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Staedtisches Krankenhaus, Neunkirchen/Saar, Germany
Kreiskrankenhaus Ottweiler, Germany
Kreiskrankenhaus St. Ingbert, Germany
|| Elisabeth Krankenhaus, Zweibrücken, Germany

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Figure 1 Flow chart of randomization. r-PA = reteplase.
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Figure 2 Event-free survival (freedom from death, reinfarction, target lesion reintervention, or ischemic events), comparison of randomization groups.
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