title: Acute myocardial infarction-related coronary artery residual narrowing after intravenous streptokinase: relationship with previous coronary symptoms.
abstract: In 72 patients who received streptokinase within 6 hours of the onset of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the relationship between the presence of a previous coronary event and the severity of the residual coronary artery stenosis was studied. Fifty-five patients were either asymptomatic or had recent onset angina (less than 5 days) before AMI (group A) and 17 patients had chronic angina (greater than 1 year) before AMI (group B). Coronary angiograms were performed at 20 days (range 15 to 25 days). Patency of the infarct-related artery was greater in group A: 43 of 55 patients (78%) versus 8 of 17 patients (47%) in group B (p less than 0.05). Residual stenosis was less than 70% in 21 patients of group A (49% of patent arteries), whereas it manifested in none of eight patients with patent arteries in group B (p less than 0.01). This suggests that thrombosis was a major component of the coronary artery narrowing in group A patients, while it is more likely that thrombus only completes a previously severe (greater than 70%) coronary artery stenosis in patients with long-standing angina before AMI.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Hospital Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sarmiento
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Blüguermann
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: González Mora
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Riccitelli
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Bertolasi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D013300:Streptokinase / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014654:Vascular Patency
chemical_list: D013300:Streptokinase