Table 1.

 Short term clinical outcome after direct PTCA and thrombolytic treatment

	PTCA	Thrombolysis	Odds ratio (95% CI)	Absolute risk difference	Number to treat
Patients (n)	3717	3720
Death	5.0	7.0	0.70 (0.6 to 0.9)	2.0	50
Non-fatal reinfarction	3.0	7.0	0.35 (0.3 to 0.5)	4.0	25
Stroke	1.0	2.0	0.46 (0.3 to 0.7)	1.0	100
Intracranial haemorrhage	0.05	1.0	0.05 (0.006 to 0.35)	0.95	105
Composite	8.0	14.0	0.5 (0.45 to 0.6)	6.0	16

Events are expressed in relative numbers (%).

Patients with AMI complicated by cardiogenic shock are not included in this analysis.^w20

Modified from Keeley et al,⁸ with permission.