Cardiac MRI assessed protection by direct stenting in STEMI: Effect of local and remote ischemic postconditioning

We read with great interest the well-designed paper by Saad et al. [1] online published in IJC in Dec 3, 2018. They conducted a subgroup analysis with well-matched STEMI population of a previous published randomized LIPSIA CONDITIONING trials [2], to explore the potential effect of stenting technique [direct (n  = 171) versus non-direct (n = 171)] on the myocardial protection assessed by cardiac MRI and 6-mon mortality in the univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. Finally, direct stenting was identified as the independent predictive factor of 6-mon mortality.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - April 24, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Baohui Lou, Chenghui Zhou Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research