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

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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Main Authors: Yusuf, S, Collins, R, Peto, R, Furberg, C, Stampfer, M, Goldhaber, S, Hennekens, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1985