Association of platelet count with residual thrombus in the myocardial infarct-related coronary artery among patients treated with fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction.
A higher platelet count is independently associated with the presence of residual thrombus in the infarct-related artery after administration of fibrinolytic therapy, even after multivariate adjustment.
Turakhia
Minang P
MP
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
Murphy
Sabina A
SA
Pinto
Tina L
TL
Antman
Elliott M
EM
Giugliano
Robert P
RP
Cannon
Christopher P
CP
Braunwald
Eugene
E
Gibson
C Michael
CM
D000368:Aged; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease; D005260:Female; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000097:blood*; D010976:Platelet Count; D012307:Risk Factors; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000097:blood*
D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents