Very late clinical progression of patients with acute myocardial infarction submitted to primary angioplasty.

Background: Information on the clinical progression, in the long term, of patients submitted to mechanical reperfusion is scarce.

Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the long-term clinical progression of patients submitted to primary stenting.

Methods: Between January 1998 and December 2003 we studied a non-concurring cohort with a fixed population of 202 patients (mean age = 61.