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Jeffrey M Tyler1, Timothy D Henry2

  • 1Cardiovascular Division, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California.

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions : Official Journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
|January 21, 2020
PubMed

SEMPER FI was a 100-patient pilot study that randomized acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients with persistent ischemia following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) versus control. AMI patients with persistent ischemia receiving short-term IABP post-PCI had a greater resolution of persistent ST segment elevation and a trend for decreased clinical events. These results support a larger adequately powered trial of IABP versus control in AMI patients with persistent ischemia following primary PCI.

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