Yukio Ozaki, Yuki Katagiri, Yoshinobu Onuma, Tetsuya Amano, Takashi Muramatsu, Ken Kozuma, Satoru Otsuji, Takafumi Ueno, Nobuo Shiode, Kazuya Kawai, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Kinzo Ueda, Takashi Akasaka, Keiichi Igarashi Hanaoka, Shiro Uemura, Hirotaka Oda, Yoshiaki Katahira, Kazushige Kadota, Eisho Kyo, Katsuhiko Sato, Tadaya Sato, Junya Shite, Koichi Nakao, Masami Nishino, Yutaka Hikichi, Junko Honye, Tetsuo Matsubara, Sumio Mizuno, Toshiya Muramatsu, Taku Inohara, Shun Kohsaka, Ichiro Michishita, Hiroyoshi Yokoi, Patrick W Serruys, Yuji Ikari, Masato Nakamura
While primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has significantly contributed to improve the mortality in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction even in cardiogenic shock, primary PCI is a standard of care in most of Japanese institutions. Whereas there are high numbers of available facilities providing primary PCI in Japan, there are no clear guidelines focusing on procedural aspect of the standardized care. Whilst updated guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction were recently published by European Society of Cardiology, the following major changes are indicated; (1) radial access and drug-eluting stent over bare metal stent were recommended as Class I indication, and (2) complete revascularization before hospital discharge (either immediate or staged) is now considered as Class IIa recommendation...
March 29, 2018: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics