DECOPI (DEsobstruction COronaire en Post-Infarctus): a randomized multi-centre trial of occluded artery angioplasty after acute myocardial infarction

A Class of $K$-Sample Tests for Comparing the Cumulative Incidence of a Competing Risk

1988 • 4,727 citations

Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents.

1994 • 2,242 citations

Incidence of restenosis after successful coronary angioplasty: a time-related phenomenon. A quantitative angiographic study in 342 consecutive patients at 1, 2, 3, and 4 months.

1988 • 936 citations

Myocardial reperfusion, limitation of infarct size, reduction of left ventricular dysfunction, and improved survival. Should the paradigm be expanded?

1989 • 560 citations

Limitation of myocardial infarct expansion by reperfusion independent of myocardial salvage.

1987 • 460 citations

A randomized trial of late reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction-6 Study Group.

1992 • 212 citations

Effect of Infarct Artery Patency on Prognosis After Acute Myocardial Infarction

1995 • 197 citations

Prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without residual anterograde coronary blood flow

1989 • 182 citations

Long-Term Beneficial Effect of Late Reperfusion for Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction With Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

1998 • 153 citations

From myocardial salvage to patient salvage in acute myocardial infarction: The role of reperfusion therapy

1989 • 147 citations

Open infarct artery, late potentials, and other prognostic factors in patients after acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era. A prospective trial.

1994 • 131 citations

Late intervention after anterior myocardial infarction: effects on left ventricular size, function, quality of life, and exercise tolerance

2002 • 131 citations

Left ventricular topographic alterations in the completely healed rat infarct caused by early and late coronary artery reperfusion

1988 • 109 citations

Randomized Comparison of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Medical Therapy in Stable Survivors of Acute Myocardial Infarction With Single Vessel Disease

2003 • 107 citations

Effects of late percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of an occluded infarct-related coronary artery on left ventricular function in patients with a recent (<6 weeks) Q-wave acute myocardial infarction (total occlusion post-myocardial infarction intervention study [TOMIIS]—A pilot study)

1994 • 107 citations

The Open-Artery Hypothesis

1998 • 97 citations

Acute reduction in functional infarct expansion with late coronary reperfusion: Assessment with quantitative two-dimensional echocardiography

1988 • 91 citations

Influence of anterograde flow in the infarct artery on the incidence of late potentials after acute myocardial infarction

1990 • 91 citations

Coronary Recanalization by Elective Angioplasty Prevents Ventricular Dilation After Anterior Myocardial Infarction

1996 • 82 citations

The late open artery hypothesis—A decade later

2001 • 67 citations

Late intervention after anterior myocardial infarction: effects on left ventricular size, function, quality of life, and exercise tolerance: results of the open artery trial (TOAT study)

2003 • 12 citations

Data Safety and Monitoring Board

2006 • 8 citations