title: Treatment of acute myocardial infarction with prolonged intracoronary urokinase delivery through intracoronary infusion catheter.
abstract: Severe acute myocardial infarction in young patients is plagued by high mortality.  We report the case of a 25-year-old man, with a family history of ischemic heart disease, who was treated with acute and prolonged intracoronary urokinase infused through a miniaturized catheter engaged in a large thrombus occluding the left anterior descending artery.  Rapid and stable recanalization was achieved with complete lysis of thrombotic material.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, University of Verona, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barbieri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anselmi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zardini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000627:therapeutic use*