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Does ischemic postconditioning reduce the composite of all-cause death and hospitalization for heart failure in patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI?
Does ischemic postconditioning reduce the composite of all-cause death and hospitalization for heart failure in patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI?
Routine ischemic postconditioning during primary PCI does not improve clinical outcomes (death or heart failure hospitalization) in patients with STEMI.
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Routine ischemic postconditioning offers no clinical benefit in STEMI; confirms prior negative trials.
Engstrøm et al. (2017) studied this question.
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