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A variety of therapeutic interventions are administered to survivors of myocardial infarction (MI) depending on disease severity and prognosis. For those patients who are under the care of a physician during the early hours following infarction, reperfusion of an infarct-related artery has been shown to reestablish antegrade flow in this vessel(1). It has been suggested that replenishing oxygen to the marginally-necrotic tissue can reverse myocardial injury (2,3). Nonetheless, thrombolytic therapy is not expected to reverse factors responsible for the initiation of the thrombus. As long as these exist, there is a high risk of vessel reclosure and further myocardial necrosis. The incidence of incomplete or total reocclusion within the initial forty-eight hours has been reported as high as fifteen to thirty-five percent (4,5). Thus after coronary artery patency is established, a persistent effort must be made to reduce the risk of reocclusion or recurrent ischemia following infarction.
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Adams, I.M., Mortara, D.W. (1987). A New Method for Electrocardiographic Monitoring. In: Califf, R.M., Wagner, G.S. (eds) Acute Coronary Care 1987. Acute Coronary Care Updates, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2337-2_10
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