Clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with early (2 h), intermediate (2-4 h) and late (4 h) presentation treated by primary coronary angioplasty or thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction
| Autor: | R. J. Gibbons, Stephen G. Ellis, Flavio Ribichini, Eulogio García, R J Simes, Anushka Patel, W. D. Weaver, Cindy L. Grines, Martin O. Jones, Expedito E. Ribeiro, Felix Zijlstra, Liliana Grinfeld, Christopher B. Granger, F. Akhras |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Myocardial Infarction law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus Angioplasty medicine Humans Thrombolytic Therapy Myocardial infarction Angioplasty Balloon Coronary Stroke Aged Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Chemotherapy business.industry Thrombolysis Middle Aged medicine.disease Logistic Models Treatment Outcome Cardiology Female Presentation (obstetrics) Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | European heart journal. 23(7) |
| ISSN: | 0195-668X |
| Popis: | Aims We examined the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with early ( 4h) presentation treated by primary angioplasty or thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Methods and Results We studied 2635 patients enrolled in 10 randomized trials of primary angioplasty (n=1302) vs thrombolytic therapy (n=1333) in acute myocardial infarction, and baseline characteristics of the two groups were comparable. Increase in presentation delay is associated with older age, female gender, diabetes and an increased heart rate. We classified the patients according to the time delay from symptom onset to presentation into three categories: early presentation ( |
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