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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

TIMI frame count improved after percutaneous coronary intervention

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, September 26th, 2004

A recent study reports on the effect of rescue or adjunctive percutaneous coronary intervention of the culprit artery after fibrinolytic administration on epicardial flow in nonculprit arteries.

"We hypothesized that blood flow in noninfarct arteries would improve after percutaneous coronary intervention of the culprit artery in the setting of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)," wrote G.S. Gardner and colleagues of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The researchers explained, "The corrected thrombolysis-in-myocardial-infarction (TIMI) frame count was measured in 94 patients (102 arteries) enrolled in the INTEGRITI, ENTIRE,...

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