The Role Of Emergency PCI In The Management Of Acute STEMI The Local Experience In Al-Nassiriya Heart Center | ||
| Mustansiriya Medical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 2, August 2017, Pages 1-7 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ali Khalid Almaliki; Ali Jabbar Alibrahemi; Tahsin Ali Al-kinani | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Primary PCI is an emergent percutaneous catheter intervention in the setting of STEMI,without previous fibrinolytic treatment .It is the prefered strategy in patients with STEMI. Aim: To evaluate the immediate and intermediate procedural and clinical outcome in a local experience. Methods: This is a descriptive cross sectional study carried out in a tertiary cardiac center for 301 patirnts with acute myocardial infarction. Fifty patients(16.6%) were followed up prospectively for one month up to one year in the outpatient clinic. Results: primary PCI was done in 294 patients (97.6%) and rescue PCI was done in 7 patients (2.4%). Ischemic time is ranging from one hour to twenty four hours (mean 5.02±3.27) . Procedural success rate was 100%. Mortality rate was 5.3% mostly because of cardiogenic shock. Conclusion: Primary PCI should be the standered of care for patients with STEMI. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Primary PCI; immediate; long term; Outcome | ||
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