PMID: 2115538Aug 1, 1990Paper

Reinfarction after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction followed by conservative management: incidence and effect of smoking

Journal of the American College of Cardiology
J T RiversR M Norris

Abstract

A group of 456 consecutive patients seen less than or equal to 6 h after the onset of acute myocardial infarction associated with ST segment elevation received thrombolytic therapy and were followed up for 12 months. Intravenous streptokinase was given to 315 patients and recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) to 141 patients. Reinfarction rate and risk factors for reinfarction were assessed. Management after thrombolysis was conservative; revascularization procedures were reserved for patients with symptoms refractory to medical therapy or for those with left main coronary artery stenosis. Coronary artery surgery or angioplasty was performed in only 3.7% of patients during the first 30 days after thrombolysis and in only 8.6% by 1 year. Most patients (79%) underwent coronary arteriography. Twenty-six patients (5.7%) exhibited signs of threatened reinfarction at 1 month after thrombolytic therapy as did 43 patients (9.4%) by 1 year. Reinfarction was prevented in four of these patients by early readministration of thrombolytic therapy. Multivariate analysis of possible risk factors for reinfarction identified at the time of initial infarction showed current cigarette smoking to be the only predictive factor (reinf...Continue Reading

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