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Myocardial infarction

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Therapy

There is no clear benefit from offering urgent angioplasty after thrombolysis. d  

Why?

  • Patients with a first MI who receive urgent angioplasty after thrombolysis compared with thrombolysis alone are not clearly less likely to die or have another MI d or require subsequent revascularisation. d

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