Coronary artery disease Circulatory System Chronic ischaemic heart disease
Conditions
Interventions
Six hundred patients with AMI will be allocated at random to receive therapeutic angioplasty alone or therapeutic angioplasty plus preventive angioplasty undertaken as an immediate follow-on procedure
Sponsors
Queen Mary University of London (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients (no age limits, either sex) with acute myocardial infarction undergoing a therapeutic angioplasty to the infarct related artery
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Cardiogenic shock 2. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
Design outcomes
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All outcomes will be recorded during the period of follow up and analysed 1 year after the last patient is recruited: 1. Repeat revascularisation 2. Complications of angioplasty 3. Angina score 4. EQ510 5. Economic evaluation | — |
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All outcomes will be recorded during the period of follow up and analysed 1 year after the last patient is recruited: 1. Death 2. Non-fatal MI 3. Refractory angina | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed