Intravenous and intracoronary fibrinolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction: Overview of results on mortality, reinfarction and side-effects from 33 randomized controlled trials

Yusuf, Salim; T. Collins, Robert; Peto, Richard; D. Furberg, Curt; J. Stampfer, Meir; Z. Goldhaber, Samuel; H Hennekens, C

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a061905

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Intravenous and intracoronary fibrinolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction: Overview of results on mortality, reinfarction and side-effects from 33 randomized controlled trials

Published in European Heart Journal • Jul 1, 1985

Authors:

Salim Yusuf

Robert T. Collins

Richard Peto

Abstract

During the past 25 years, 24 randomized trials of intravenous (IV) fibrinolytic treatment have been reported, involving a total of some 6000 patients in the acute phase of myocardial infarction. Most tested IV streptokinase (SK), but a few tested IV urokinase (UK). In the past 2 or 3 years numerous ...

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Medicine

Myocardial infarction

Randomized controlled trial

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