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To the Editor: Wald et al. (Sept. 19 issue)1 report the results of the Preventive Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction (PRAMI) study, which showed that preventive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In this study, a patient with stenosis of 50% or more in a noninfarct artery was eligible for PCI. Unfortunately, the authors do not report the severity and location of the stenoses or the left ventricular ejection fraction. The lack of such data may lead to a misinterpretation of the results of the study for several . . .
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