[Primary coronary angioplasty as early reperfusion treatment of acute myocardial infarction].
Between March 1990 and July 1993, 21 patients with an evolving acute myocardial infarction were treated with coronary angioplasty after 2-9 hours of chest pain (mean 3.9). Thirteen had a clinically and electrocardiographically large infarction, including 3 in cardiogenic shock. The dilated arteries were the left anterior descending in 14, the left circumflex in 4 and right coronary artery in 3 patients. With angioplasty successful reperfusion of the infarct area was obtained in 18 patients (86%). The procedure was well tolerated by most patients and the in-hospital mortality rate was 5%.
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Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
Martínez
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Marchant
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Fajuri
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Castro
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Corbalán
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D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D013997:Time Factors
Angioplastia coronaria primaria como tratamiento de reperfusion precoz del infarto agudo del miocardio.