1. Cause of acute myocardial infarction after successful coronary angioplasty
- Author
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Robert J. Applegate, Michael A. Kutcher, Michael Mumma, Richard Kerensky, and William C. Little
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Myocardial Infarction ,Arterial Occlusive Diseases ,Coronary Disease ,Constriction, Pathologic ,Coronary Angiography ,Revascularization ,Lesion ,Recurrence ,Angioplasty ,Internal medicine ,Occlusion ,medicine ,Humans ,Myocardial infarction ,Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Coronary Vessels ,Surgery ,Stenosis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Bypass surgery ,Cardiology ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Artery - Abstract
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty is now accepted as effective therapy for selected patients with coronary artery disease.1 It has been suggested that patients with complete revascularization after coronary angioplasty have a lower incidence of subsequent myocardial infarction than those with incomplete revasculariiation. However, it is not known whether myocardial infarction after angioplasty is due to occlusion at the angioplasty site, at the site of an undilated stenosis or at the site of a previously nonobstructive lesion. In patients treated medically2,3 or with bypass surgery,4 subsequent myocardial infarction frequently occurs owing to occlusion at a site that previously had
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- 1991