Systolic blood pressure response to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for cardiogenic shock.
This study reports that an improvement in systolic blood pressure of > 10 mm Hg after PTCA in patients with cardiogenic shock was associated with in-hospital survival (8 of 8 patients). Failure to achieve infarct artery patency (6 of 6) or technically successful PTCA, unaccompanied by improved systolic blood pressure in the catheterization laboratory, was associated with in-hospital mortality in this series.
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Cardiology Section, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Colorado, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001794:Blood Pressure; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013599:Systole; D014654:Vascular Patency