STEMI Case Study

ST- Elevation MI comprises approximately 25-40 % of MI presentation and approximately 50 % of STEMI patients have significant stenosis of other non-culprit arteries as a part of a multi vessel occlusion disease which confer a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. According to ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of STEMI 2013, primary PCI for the culprit artery is the recommended method of revascularization in STEMI. PCI should not be performed in a non-culprit artery at the time of primary PCI in patients with STEMI who are hemo-dynamically stable ( class III (level B)). PCI in a non-culprit artery is only indicated at a time separate from primary PCI(delayed) in patients who have spontaneous symptoms of
Still , there are conflicting results in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing culprit artery only PCI with multi-vessel PCI either at the same sitting of the primary PCI or as a staged procedure, likely because of differing inclusion criteria , statistical heterogeneity, sample size and variable endpoints.("," ; "," ; Engstrøm et al., 2015; Politi et al., 2010)
Therefore, we performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses to compare the effectiveness between culprit-only PCI to multi-vessel PCI in patients with STEMI and multi-vessel disease and between the two types of complete revascularization namely immediate and staged PCI. Also , to assess the adverse effects as major adverse cardiac events ,mortality ,re-infarction ,repeat revascularization ,bleeding and kidney dysfunction
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