Skip Navigation


European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 24, 2008
European Heart Journal 2009 30(2):129-130; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn563
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
30/2/129    most recent
ehn563v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in EHJ
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lowe, H.C.
Right arrow Articles by Freedman, S.B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lowe, H.C.
Right arrow Articles by Freedman, S.B.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The late open artery hypothesis: the case and the artery remain closed

H.C. Lowe1,2 and S.B. Freedman1,2,3,*

1 Department of Cardiology, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2 Vascular Biology Group, ANZAC Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
3 Pro Dean Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

* Corresponding author. Tel: +612 9767 7358, Fax: +612 9767 6780, Email: ben@med.usyd.edu.au

This editorial refers to ‘Lack of benefit from percutaneous intervention of persistently occluded infarct arteries after the acute phase of myocardial infarction is time independent: insights from the Occluded Artery Trial’{dagger} by V. Menon et al. on page 183

Footnotes

The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the Editors of the European Heart Journal or of the European Society of Cardiology.

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

The OAT trial1 was a key investigation, contributing to contemporary practice in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It unexpectedly demonstrated that for patients undergoing angiography between 3 and 28 days after AMI with poor or absent flow in a major infarct-related artery (IRA), re-establishing flow by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) provided . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?

Related articles in EHJ:

Lack of benefit from percutaneous intervention of persistently occluded infarct arteries after the acute phase of myocardial infarction is time independent: insights from Occluded Artery Trial
Venu Menon, Camille A. Pearte, Christopher E. Buller, Ph.Gabriel Steg, Sandra A. Forman, Harvey D. White, Paolo N. Marino, Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Paulo Caramori, Ricardo Lasevitch, Krystyna Loboz-Grudzien, Aleksander Zurakowski, Gervasio A. Lamas, and Judith S. Hochman
EHJ 2009 30: 183-191. [Abstract] [Full Text]  



This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal Watch CardiologyHome page
Did Time to Randomization Affect the OAT Results?
Journal Watch Cardiology, February 25, 2009; 2009(225): 3 - 3.
[Full Text]