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Table 3 Comparison of angiographic characteristics between non-survivors and survivors

From: Predictors of survival following extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in patients with acute myocardial infarction-complicated refractory cardiac arrest in the emergency department: a retrospective study

 

Non-survivors

Survivors

p

n = 30

n = 7

Coronary angiographic findings

  

0.157**

 Spasm

3 (10%)

-

 Left main

1 (3%)

2 (29%)

 One vessel

6 (20%)

-

 Two vessels

11 (37%)

3 (43%)

 Three vessels

9 (30%)

2 (29%)

Infarction-related artery

  

0.285**

 Left main

8 (27%)

4 (57%)

 Left anterior descending

10 (33%)

1 (14%)

 Right coronary artery

12 (40%)

2 (29%)

Percutaneous coronary intervention

  

0.302**

 Stent

19 (63%)

7 (100%)

 Balloon

5 (17%)

-

 Failed

2 (7%)

-

 No procedure

4 (13%)

-

  1. Three patients showed spontaneous reperfusion in the coronary artery spam during the no-procedure period, but the procedure could not be pursued in one patient who had received bronchial artery embolization because of a continuing massive pulmonary hemorrhage.
  2. **Pearson chi-square test.