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Procedural results of coronary angioplasty but not late mortality have improved in patients with depressed left ventricular function

1999; Wiley; Volume: 22; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/clc.4960220809

1932-8737

Joseph Lindsay, Gabriela A. Grasa, Ellen Pinnow, G. Plude, Augusto D. Pichard,

Acute Myocardial Infarction Research

Published experience with coronary angioplasty in patients with severely depressed left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction indicates that procedural complications are more frequent in such patients than in those with normal or near normal LV function. Although the immediate outcomes of transcatheter revascularization in unselected populations have improved substantially since the procedures upon which these reports were based were performed, outcomes with this subset of patients has not been recently reviewed.