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Free-radical generation during angioplasty reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction
E D Grech1, N J Dodd, C M Bellamy
1Department of Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool.
Lancet (London, England)
|April 17, 1993
Abstract:
We describe direct and quantitative evidence of free-radical production in the early stage after recanalisation in a patient undergoing primary coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. After successful initial dilation, the procedure was complicated by re-occlusion of the artery at the same site, with subsequent fall in free-radical generation. After repeat angioplasty, recanalisation was again accompanied by increased free-radical production.