Outcome of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in diabetics treated with fibrinolytic or combination reduced fibrinolytic therapy and platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition
Lessons from the GUSTO V trial
Hitinder S. Gurm, MD*,
A. Michael Lincoff, MD*,*,
David Lee, MD*,
W. H. Wilson Tang, MD*,
Gang Jia, MS*,
Joan E. Booth, RN*,
Robert M. Califf, MD ,
E. M. Ohman, MD ,
Frans Van de Werf, MD, PhD ,
Paul W. Armstrong, MD||,
Victor Guetta, MD¶,
Robert Wilcox, MD# and
Eric J. Topol, MD*
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
|| University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
¶ The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
# University Hospital Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Figure 1 Outcome of diabetics with myocardial infarction randomized to standard versus combination therapy. CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; CI = confidence interval; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention.
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