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Acute interventions for myocardial reperfusion
M Brown1, C D'Haem, D Berkompas
1Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|September 18, 1998
Abstract:
The primary goal of treatment in acute myocardial infarction is reperfusion of the infarct-related artery in as short a time as possible. Present strategies for acute reperfusion include the use of thrombolytic agents and a variety of catheter-based interventions. This article presents a brief review of these strategies and discusses the patient subsets better served by a particular type of intervention.