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Acute Myocardial Infarction

Access-site complications limited after rescue PCI during thrombolysis

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, April 24th, 2005

Access-site complications are limited and manageable after coronary intervention during thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction.

"Aggressive antithrombotic medical therapy may increase the rate of access-site complications after percutaneous coronary intervention," cardiologists in Germany explained.

"Frequently, emergency coronary interventions have to be performed in a situation when thrombolysis therapy was administered as the first-line therapeutic approach in acute myocardial infarction but failed to achieve stable conditions," noted A. Germing and colleagues at the Ruhr University of Bochum.

In their study, Germing and...

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