Study	Reason for exclusion
Babbitt 1988	Not an RCT
Dani 2009	Not an RCT. Intervention groups did not meet inclusion criteria
De Luca 2012	Participants received elective PCI, which did not meet inclusion criteria
Dillon 2001	Not an RCT
Fischell 1998	Not an RCT. Participants received saphenous vein graft percutaneous coronary intervention
Forman 2008	Not an RCT
Garratt 1998	Not an RCT. Intervention was a combination of adenosine plus lidocaine, with no control group
Granger 1997	Not an RCT
Hang 2005	Single‐centre, non‐randomised, prospective study with a retrospective control group
Harding 2006	Not an RCT
Heidland 2000	Participants were patients with stable angina
Huang 2009	Abstract only, cannot contact study authors
Ibrahim 2002	Not an RCT
Jing 2010	Abstract only, cannot contact study authors
Kelly 2005	Not an RCT
Kim 2009	Participants had stable or unstable angina and received non‐urgent PCI, which did not meet inclusion criteria
Kloner 2006	Participants received both PPCI and thrombolysis as reperfusion therapy
Kopecky 2003	Intervention was adenosine agonist (AMP579), which did not meet inclusion criteria
Lee 2007	Participants underwent non‐urgent PCI, which did not meet inclusion criteria
Lim 2004	Intervention group got adenosine plus nicorandil; control group was given adenosine alone
Masaya 2004	Retrospective study, not an RCT
Matsuo 2007	Participants were not patients with AMI
Micari 2004	Abstract only, cannot contact study authors
Michaels 2002	Participants received saphenous vein graft percutaneous coronary intervention
Parikh 2004	Not an RCT; intervention group did not meet inclusion criteria
Parikh 2007	Not an RCT
Rezkalla 2010	Not an RCT. Retrospective study
Ross 2005	Participants received both PPCI and thrombolysis as reperfusion therapy
Sakuma 2010	Study was a prospective, non‐randomised, open‐label trial
Tian 2008	Participants underwent non‐urgent PCI, which did not meet inclusion criteria
Tsao 2009	Complex coronary artery disease. Not an RCT
Vijayalakshmi 2006	Participants were not only STEMI but also had non‐STEMI and unstable angina (acute coronary syndrome), so did not meet inclusion criteria
Werner 2002	Not an RCT. AMI participants received not only direct PTCA but also rescue PTCA
Wilkinson 2010	Not an RCT. Participants received saphenous vein graft percutaneous coronary intervention. Conference proceeding report
Zhen‐Guo 2010	Abstract only, cannot contact study authors