You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Miscellanea
No reflow was caught red handed in a patient with acute anterior myocardial infarction undergoing rescue angioplasty
  1. W Ng,
  2. P-Y Lee,
  3. C-P Lau
  1. cplau@hkucc.hku.hk

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2003.014977

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    A 58 year old male smoker who has hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented with acute anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI). He was initially treated with thrombolytic therapy—30 mg of intravenous bolus dose of TNK-TPA (Tenecteplase, Metalyse) and heparin. A 90 minute angiogram showed a mid left anterior descending (LAD) 80% ulcerative hazy critical lesion with TIMI grade 2 flow down LAD territory (panel A). In view of ongoing chest pain, incomplete …

    View Full Text