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Angioplasty reduces long-term cardiac risk among heart patients with 'silent' ischemia

. The rate of ischemia among patients in the PCI group was 11.6 percent at the final follow-up, compared with 28.9 percent among patients in the drug therapy group, despite fewer drugs.

"We found a persistent benefit of PCI compared with optimized drug therapy," the authors report. "This benefit became apparent only after two years of observation, with survival curves continuously diverging up to the final follow-up after ten years."

"This is the first, to our knowledge, long-term outcome study of an invasive therapy compared with an intensive anti-ischemic drug therapy in asymptomatic patients with silent ischemia after a recent MI," the authors write.

"Our findings argue for an ischemic-targeted approach to PCI among asymptomatic survivors of MI," they conclude.


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8-May-2007


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