Treatment of acute myocardial infarct by intracoronary thrombolysis and aortocoronary bypass
Medici, D.; Barboso, G.; Fesani, F.
Acta Bio-Medica de l'Ateneo Parmense 56(3): 173-179
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0392-4203 PMID: 2934934 Document Number: 254849
Nine patients with acute myocardial infarction underwent intracoronary urokinase infusion within 3 hours after the onset of AMI, and subsequent coronary artery by pass grafting. After thrombolytic therapy 3 patients showed single-vessel disease, 2 double-vessel disease and 4 triple-vessel disease. The ventricular function was normal in 2 patients, moderately depressed in 5 and severely depressed in 2. The coronary artery by-pass grafting was performed from 6 to days after the onset of the acute myocardial infarction (average 37 days) and the average number of grafts performed per patient was 3.2. There was no operative death. The follow up period ranged from 24 to 38 months: 7 patients are in NYHA Class I and 2, symptomatic for dispnea, are in NYHA Class II. These preliminary data suggest than the coronary artery by-pass grafting after intracoronary urokinase therapy for acute myocardial infarction can be performed safely and the surgical results do not differ from those obtained with standard coronary artery by pass grafting.