The most recent data, from late summer 2008, involved an efficient region-wide system for reperfusion based in Italy. [7] Investigators compared in-hospital and 1-year cardiac mortality of ...

[1] Timely reperfusion of the infarct-related coronary artery using fibrinolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is advocated as the standard of care by both U.S. and European guidelines.