Age and diabetes mellitus associated with worse outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in a multi-ethnic Asian dialysis patient population.
CONCLUSION: Asian dialysis patients who underwent PCI had a two-year MACE rate of 55.8% due to death and AMI. Age, LVEF and diabetes mellitus were significant predictors of mortality at two years.
PMID: 32179924 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Singapore Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Authors: Fam JM, Khoo CY, Lau YH, Lye WK, Cai XJ, Choong LHL, Allen JC, Yeo KK Tags: Singapore Med J Source Type: research
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