Increased Hyperkinesis in Noninfarcted Areas during Short-term Follow-up in Patients with First Anterior Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated by Direct Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty.

Long-term follow-up of patients treated with coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction.

Long-term follow-up data for patients treated with coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for acute myocardial infarction are limited. Therefore the long-term outcome of 336 consecutive patients treated with PTCA at a median of 4.5 hours (range 0.5 to 48 hours) from symptom onset was evaluated. The in-hospital mortality was 11.1% (37 patients). Follow-up is complete for 293 of 299 (98%) hospital survivors...

Role of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction.

Emergency percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for intractable ventricular arrhythmias associated with acute anterior myocardial infarction.

A previously fit marathon-running 54 year old man was admitted as an emergency having collapsed with chest pain caused by an acute transmural anterior myocardial infarction. He was initially resuscitated by his general practitioner then had recurrent episodes of ventricular flutter and fibrillation requiring continuing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and repeated defibrillation. During ambulance ...

Long-term beneficial effect of late reperfusion for acute anterior myocardial infarction with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

BACKGROUND Although the short-term and long-term beneficial effects of early coronary revascularization by primary PTCA or thrombolytic therapy have been established for acute myocardial infarction, thrombolytic therapy >24 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction has not been shown to improve clinical outcome. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of late revasculariza...

Evaluation of ejection fraction in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Introduction: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a reperfusion strategy to increase life expectancy and ejection fraction (EF) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. We investigated the effect of location, severity, type of lesion, number and type of vessel involved and time of angioplasty on the increase in EF in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI (P-PCI) a...