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European Heart Journal 2008 29(5):571-572; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm277
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Acute reperfusion strategies for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Benedict M. Glover and A.A. Jennifer Adgey*

Regional Medical Cardiology Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 289 089 4975, Fax: +44 289 031 2907, Email: jennifer.adgey@royalhospitals.n-i.nhs.uk

This editorial refers to ‘Trends in acute reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from 1999 to 2006: we are getting better but we have got a long way to go’ by K.A. Eagle et al.,{dagger} on page 609

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The overall aim of reperfusion therapy for patients presenting with an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is to restore normal blood flow in the infarct-related artery as rapidly and completely as possible, and thus myocardial perfusion. This can be achieved by the administration of thrombolytic therapy (either pre-hospital or in hospital) or by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). Guidelines suggest that thrombolytic therapy should be administered within a door to needle time (or medical contact to needle time) of <30 min and a door to balloon time of <90 min for PPCI.1

Eagle et al.2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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