@article{6323ebdd25f246909633d46fa5051fa9,
title = "Impact of age on long-term outcome after primary angioplasty with bare-metal or drug-eluting stent (from the DESERT cooperation)",
abstract = "Despite mechanical reperfusion, elderly patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) still experience unsatisfactory outcomes. Drug-eluting stents (DES) have significantly reduced target-vessel revascularization (TVR), but concerns have emerged about the higher risk of late stent thrombosis, which may be more pronounced in elderly patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of age on outcome in patients with STEMI who underwent primary angioplasty with bare-metal stents (BMS) or DES. Our population comprised 6,298 patients who underwent primary angioplasty and stent implantation included in the Drug-Eluting Stent in Primary Angioplasty (DESERT) Cooperation database. Age was significantly associated with female gender (p ",
keywords = "Age Factors, Aged, Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary, Drug-Eluting Stents, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Prosthesis Design, Stents, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome",
author = "{De Luca}, Giuseppe and Dirksen, {Maurits T} and Christian Spaulding and Henning Kelb{\ae}k and Martin Schalij and Leif Thuesen and {van der Hoeven}, Bas and Vink, {Marteen A} and Christoph Kaiser and Carmine Musto and Tania Chechi and Gaia Spaziani and {Diaz de la Llera}, {Luis Salvador} and Vincenzo Pasceri and {Di Lorenzo}, Emilio and Roberto Violini and Harry Suryapranata and Stone, {Gregg W} and {DESERT Cooperation}",
note = "Copyright {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2013",
month = jul,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.03.012",
language = "English",
volume = "112",
pages = "181--6",
journal = "The American journal of cardiology",
issn = "0002-9149",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "2",
}