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Coronary Circulation and Myocardial Ischaemia: Thrombolysis

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Coronary Circulation and Myocardial Ischemia

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 32))

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The past 1–2 decades have seen a revolution in the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI), so that the case fatality of those who reach hospital has about halved [1]. This improvement has been related to several factors, but mainly to the timely dissolution of the culprit thrombus by thrombolytic drugs [2] or later by direct PTCA [3], and the enhancement of this process by inhibition of platelet aggregation by aspirin [4] and the newer more powerful IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

    P. Sleight

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  1. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Michael R. Pinsky MD, CM, FCCP, FCCM (Director of Research Division of Critical Care Medicine Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine) (Director of Research Division of Critical Care Medicine Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine)

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain

    Antonio Artigas MD, PhD (Director of Critical Care Center Sabadell Hospital Associate Professor) (Director of Critical Care Center Sabadell Hospital Associate Professor)

  3. Paris, France

    Jean-Francois Dhainaut MD, PhD (Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit Dean of Cochin Port-Royal Medical School Vice-President of Paris University) (Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit Dean of Cochin Port-Royal Medical School Vice-President of Paris University)

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Sleight, P. (2002). Coronary Circulation and Myocardial Ischaemia: Thrombolysis. In: Pinsky, M.R., Artigas, A., Dhainaut, JF. (eds) Coronary Circulation and Myocardial Ischemia. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57212-8_13

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