GLOBAL AND REGIONAL LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION AND TOMOGRAPHIC RADIONUCLIDE PERFUSION - THE WESTERN WASHINGTON INTRACORONARY STREPTOKINASE IN MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION TRIAL
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION AND TOMOGRAPHIC RADIONUCLIDE PERFUSION - THE WESTERN WASHINGTON INTRACORONARY STREPTOKINASE IN MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION TRIAL
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.70.5.867
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
KENNEDY, JW
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作者:
RITCHIE, JL;DAVIS, KB;KENNEDY, JW
The Western Washington Intracoronary Streptokinase In Myocardial Infarction Trial enrolled 250 patients with acute myocardial infarction. After the coronary angiographic diagnosis of thrombosis, patients were randomly assigned to receive either conventional therapy with heparin or intracoronary streptokinase followed by heparin. Of the 232 patients who survived at least 60 days, 207 (89%) underwent radionuclide ventriculographic determination of global and regional ejection fraction at a single institution at 62 .+-. 35 days after infarction. In the 1st 100 patients, infarct size was also determined by quantitative single-photon emission tomographic imaging with 201Tl and expressed as a percentage of the left ventricle with a perfusion defect. Overall, global ejection fraction did not differ between patients treated with streptokinase (45.9 .+-. 13.9%; n = 115) and control patients (46.1 .+-. 14.4%; n = 92, P = NS [not significant]). Similarly, the regional posterolateral, inferior and anteroseptal ejection fraction did not differ between the 2 groups. Infarct size as measured by 201Tl tomography was 19.4 .+-. 12.8% (n = 52) of the left ventricle for the streptokinase group and 19.6 .+-. 11.8% (n = 48; P = NS) for the control group. When patients were compared within groups by ECG location of infarction, time to treatment, or the presence or absence of vessel opening, there were no significant differences between streptokinase and control patients. Statistical inclusion of the 18 patients who died early and were unavailable for study also failed to modify the results, except for a possible reduction in inferior infarct size as measured by 201Tl tomography. Global and regional left ventricular pump function and infarct size determined by 201Tl tomography apparently did not differ substantially between patients receiving streptokinase and those receiving conventional treatment when measured 8 wk after myocardial infarction.