OPTIMAL-REPERFUSION is an investigator-initiated, prospective, multicenter, randomized, open-label, superiority trial with blinded evaluation of outcomes. A total of 632 STEMI patients presenting within 6 hours after symptom onset and with an expected time of medical contact to percutaneous coronary intervention ≥120 min will be randomized to a reduced-dose facilitated PCI strategy (reduced-dose fibrinolysis combined with simultaneous transfer for immediate invasive therapy with a time interval between fibrinolysis to PCI < 3 hours) or to pharmacoinvasive treatment. The primary endpoint is the composite of death, reinfarction, refractory ischemia, congestive heart failure, or cardiogenic shock at 30-days.
The OPTIMAL-REPERFUSION trial will help determine whether reduced-dose facilitated PCI strategy improves clinical outcomes in patients with STEMI and anticipated PPCI delay