Review
Stents in medicine
The role of coronary angioplasty and stenting in acute
myocardial infarction
Adrian Brodisona, Ranjit S Moreb, Anoop Chauhana
a Regional
Cardiothoracic Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, UK, b St Mary's
Hospital, Portsmouth, UK
Correspondence to: Dr A Chauhan, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool FY3 8NR, UK
Accepted 14 May 1999
Despite the improvements in the pharmacological treatment of
acute myocardial infarction, it is recognised that thrombolysis fails
to reproduce reperfusion in a significant proportion of patients.
Coronary interventional techniques have been shown to offer an
alternative reperfusion strategy. There is increasing evidence that
mechanical reperfusion may offer significant advantages over
established thrombolytic therapy.
Keywords: angioplasty; stenting; myocardial infarction; percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; thrombolysis
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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