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Myocardial infarction

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Therapy

Give any of the following with enoxaparin. a    

Why?

  • Adding enoxaparin compared with heparin to tenecteplase reduces reinfarction and refractory ischaemia in hospital. a  
  • There is no clear increase in death, major haemorrhage or thrombocytopenia. a  

Adding enoxaparin to tenecteplase leads to less reinfarction and refractory ischaemia than adding heparin

Patient Treatment Comparison Outcome CER RRR
(95% CI)
NNT
(95% CI)
myocardial infarction a   tenecteplase and enoxaparin tenecteplase and unfractionated heparin inhospital reinfarction
at 30 days
4.2% 37%
(12% to 55%)
64
(37 to 220)
      inhospital refractory ischaemia
at 30 days
6.5% 30%
(9% to 46%)
52
(30 to 190)
 

Expiry date: November 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , B   Phillips , CM   Ball