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Large-scale studies with mortality endpoints comparing fibrinolytic therapy with placebo in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have documented the benefit of timely dissolution of coronary arterial thrombi by intravenous infusion of plasminogen activators (Fig. 1).(1)
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Peter, K., Bode, C. (2002). Thrombus Targeting of Plasminogen Activators and Anticoagulants. In: Muzykantov, V., Torchilin, V. (eds) Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4627-3_5
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