Relationship between the generation and the facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction--analysis based on the fibrinolysis and subsequent transluminal trial--.

Background: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in comparing young and elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Methods And Results: The present study enrolled 168 initial myocardial infarction patients within 12 h of the symptom onset between 40 and 80 years of age who were indicated on the fibrinolysis and subsequent transluminal (FAST-3) trial. The patients were divided into 4 groups according to their age, peak creatine kinase (CK), peak CK-MB and peak troponin T (Tn-T) levels, and cardiac function were compared between the 4 groups.