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Angiographic study of mutant tissue-type plasminogen activator versus urokinase for acute myocardial infarction.
Japanese circulation journal - 1 Feb 1998
Nagao K, Satou K, Watanabe I, Arima K, Yamashita M, Ooiwa K, Kanmatsuse K
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The effects and problems of intravenous thrombolytic therapy with a bolus injection of mutant tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) were investigated in 34 patients with first acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In contrast, 114 patients were selected from 1,003 patients with AMI for treatment using intravenous infusion urokinase (UK). Angiography of these 148 patients revealed a complete occlusion of...
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