Ascertainment of Silent Myocardial Infarction in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from the GLOBAL LEADERS trial)

Q-wave myocardial infarction (QWMI) comprises two entities. Firstly, a clinically evident MI, which can occur spontaneously or be related to a coronary procedure. Secondly, silent MI which is incidentally detected on serial electrocardiographic (ECG) assessment. The prevalence of silent MI after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the drug-eluting stent era has not been fully investigated. The GLOBAL LEADERS is an all-comers multicenter trial which randomized 15,991 patients undergoing PCI to two antiplatelet treatment strategies.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - September 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Chun Chin Chang, Ernest Spitzer, Ply Chichareon, Kuniaki Takahashi, Rodrigo Modolo, Norihiro Kogame, Mariusz Tomaniak, Hidenori Komiyama, Sing-Chien Yap, Stephen P Hoole, Tommaso Gori, Azfar Zaman, Bernhard Frey, Rui Cruz Ferreira, Olivier F. Bertrand, Ti Source Type: research