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Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for cardiogenic shock in a large national registry
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Declining IABP use without O-MCS substitution signals uneven MCS adoption in shock PCI; leaves open optimal strategies and outcome impact.
Despite a decrease in IABP use for cardiogenic shock during PCI, there has been no compensatory increase in other mechanical circulatory support devices, which remain concentrated in a few hospitals.
Sandhu et al. (2015) studied this question.
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