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Heart Attack Therapy

Study results from Brigham and Women's Hospital update understanding of heart attack therapy

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 19th, 2009

New research, 'ExTRACT-TIMI 25 in perspective: key lessons regarding enoxaparin as an adjunct to fibrinolytic therapy,' is the subject of a report. According to a study from the United States, "Unfractionated heparin (UFH) for 48 h has been the traditional standard anticoagulant with fibrinolytics. The Enoxaparin and Thrombolysis Reperfusion for Acute Myocardial Infarction (ExTRACT)-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 25 trial prospectively studied the usefulness of enoxaparin and found that in patients treated with fibrinolysis, enoxaparin administered throughout the index hospitalization was superior to the standard 48-h UFH infusion."

"However, enoxaparin...

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