The use of revascularization procedures is increasing rapidly among patients 80 and older admitted for an acute myocardial infarction, a retrospective Canadian study found. For such patients living in Quebec, rates increased for both percutaneous coronary intervention (from 2.2% to 24.9%) and coronary artery bypass grafting (from 0.8% to 3.1%) from the mid-1990s through 2006, Louise Pilote, MD, PhD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues reported online in CMAJ.
