Identification and Management of Patients with Failed Thrombolysis after Acute Myocardial Infarction
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People who are hospitalized for a should be treated with angioplasty if they do not respond to thrombolytic drugs. Both of these treatments are used to re-open blocked coronary arteries but they work in different ways. Thrombolytic drugs break down blood clots, which are the cause of most heart attacks. Angioplasty flattens the plaque that builds up inside the arteries. Thrombolytic drugs can be given quickly in the emergency department, but they do not always restore blood flow. If not, patients should receive angioplasty as soon as possible.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2000
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Cost-effectiveness of implantable defibrillators versus the drug amiodarone to prevent abnormal heart rhythms after heart attack
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Implantable defibrillators would have to reduce the number of deaths from arrhythmia be half in order to be cost-effective. Because the drug amiodarone is much cheaper, it would be cost-effective if it only reduced the number of deaths by 7%. Arrhythmia sometimes develops in people who have a heart attack.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2001
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Treatment and outcomes of heart attacks in people with pacemakers
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People who have a pacemaker may not receive adequate treatment when they have a heart attack and also appear to have higher mortality rates from a heart attack. This was the conclusion of a study of 102,249 patients 65 years old and older who had a heart attack.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2001
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