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Inclusion Criteria: * All patient who are between 18 and 80 years old who present to our hospital (Assiut university heart hospital) with STEMI and eligible for primary PCI as treatment of choice according to guidelines, will be included in our study. Exclusion Criteria: * Patient who refuse to undergo revasculariztion using primary PCI. * Patient who will die before withdraw of laboratory blood sample. * Patient with previous PCI and/or CABG. * Patient with underlying co-morbidity with life expectancy less than 1 year (end stage liver disease, end stage renal disease on regular dialysis, active malignancy). * Patient with failed canalization of infarct related artery. * Patient referred to CABG after angiography. * Patient who is unconscious after cardiac arrest .