Culprit lesion location and outcome in patients with cardiogenic shock complicating myocardial infarction: a substudy of the IABP-SHOCK II-trial.
Georg FuernauKarl FenglerSteffen DeschIngo EitelFranz-Josef NeumannHans-Georg OlbrichAntoinette de WahaSuzanne de WahaGert RichardtMarcus HennersdorfKlaus EmpenRainer HambrechtChristian JungMichael BöhmJanine PössRuth H StrasserSteffen SchneiderTaoufik OuarrakGerhard SchulerKarl WerdanUwe ZeymerHolger ThielePublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2016)
For patients with CS complicating myocardial infarction, the culprit vessel seems to be unrelated with mortality whereas distal culprit lesions may have a worse outcome.