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Association of a negative residual stenosis following rescue/adjunctive percutaneous coronary intervention with impaired myocardial perfusion and adverse outcomes among ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients

C. Michael Gibson, MS, MD^*,,*, Ajay J. Kirtane, MD^*,, Keith Boundy, BA, Hung Ly, MD, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, MD^*, Sabina A. Murphy, MPH, Robert P. Giugliano, MD, SM, Christopher P. Cannon, MD, Elliott M. Antman, MD, Eugene Braunwald, MD TIMI Study Group

^* Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
TIMI Study Group, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Departments of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

View larger version (77K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Example of a lesion with <0% residual stenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Change in normal reference segment (mm) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) stratified by residual stenosis.

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Association of abnormal myocardial perfusion with degree of residual stenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). TFG = Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction flow grade; TMPG = Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction myocardial perfusion grade.