Menko-Jan de Boer

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus documents aim to present management and recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategies for the individual patient, suffering from a specific condition, taking into account not only the impact on outcome, but also the risk benefit ratio of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that ECG patterns reflect the effectiveness of myocardial reperfusion, and patients for whom reperfusions therapy by primary angioplasty was successful and who had normalised ST segments had limited damage to the myocardium and an excellent outlook during follow-up.

TL;DR: It is shown that, in patients with STEMI treated by primary angioplasty, symptom-onset-to-balloon time, but not door- to-balloons time, is related to mortality, particularly in non-low-risk patients and in the absence of preprocedural anterograde flow.

TL;DR: MBG is a strong angiographic predictor of mortality in patients with TIMI 3 flow after primary angioplasty and should include both TIMi 3 flow and MBG 2 or 3 in the definition of successful reperfusion.

TL;DR: Large variations in reperfusion treatment are still present across Europe, and countries in Eastern and Southern Europe reported that a substantial number of STEMI patients are not receiving any reperfusions therapy.