Comparison of short-term clinical outcomes of proximal versus nonproximal lesion location in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: The PROXIMITI study.
Samer NoamanCheng Yee GohSara VogrinAngela L BrennanNick AndrianopoulosDiem T DinhJeffrey LefkovitsChristopher M ReidAntony WaltonOmar Al-MukhtarSinjini BiswasDion StubStephen J DuffyNicholas CoxWilliam ChanPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2018)
Patients with proximal lesion location had greater hemodynamic instability and higher-risk features; however, proximal lesions per se were not independently associated with worse clinical outcomes compared to nonproximal lesions.