“…The insertion of an IABP can understandably lead to an increase in bacteremia, wound, respiratory, and urinary tract infections as these patients frequently require a prolonged stay in intensive care units. IABP's complications have a considerable discrepancy of prevalence reported in the literature (0.9% to 7%) [16][17][18][19]. Also, IABP's correlation to NI likely reflects STEMI's severity (hemodynamic instability or cardiogenic shock), rather than an effect of the IABP itself.…”