Myocardal Infarction/diagnosis

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Time is Muscle

Before the 80’s, the treatment of patients with ST–segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) had as main goals the control of pain, arrhythmia and reduction of cardiac work, aiming to limit the extent of myocardial necrosis. These measures were partially effective, but the morbidity and mortality of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remained high.

From the findings of Dewood, angiographically showing the presence of coronary occlusion by a thrombus in the culprit artery of the STEMI, strategies of reperfusion have emerged both thrombolytic therapy and primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PCI). The treatment of STEMI changes from contemplation to intervention.

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Angioplasty
Myocardal Infarction/diagnosis
Myocardial Infarction/mortality
Myocardial Infarction/therapy
ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/physiopathology
Survival Rate
Thrombolytic Therapy
Time Factors

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