No benefit to mechanically opening arteries days after a heart attack
14th Nov 2006, 15:19 GMT
In the days following a heart attack, patients who have no or mild symptoms and undergo a procedure called angioplasty to mechanically open their totally blocked coronary arteries do not reduce their risk of having another heart attack, going into heart failure or dying, according to the results of a new study.
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