The use of drug-eluting stents in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is safe and improves clinical outcomes by reducing the risk of reintervention compared with bare-metal stents.

Increased QRS fragmentation in post-MI patients predicts cardiac deaths and HF progression. A computer-based fragmentation analysis is a stronger predictor than QRSd.

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In post-MI patients with left ventricular dysfunction, increased intra-QRS fragmentation in high-resolution magnetocardiography predicts arrhythmic events, whereas QRS duration in 12-lead ECG predicts all-cause mortality. Analysis of intra-QRS fragmentation by MCG may assist in guiding therapy of post-MI patients, for example, by selecting those who would benefit most from prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy.

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