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There are several ways to reopen an acutely occluded coronary artery. Thrombolysis can be achieved with various methods (1, 5, 7, 10). After thrombolysis we find that the residual thrombus can sometimes be seen, but in most cases, a more or less high grade coronary stenosis remains (2). It is also a question of whether it is always optimal to reopen the vessel, because if the vessel remains occluded, another occlusion cannot occur. With this situation one faces the possibility that the patient will suffer another infarction, and that the vessel will occlude again (4).
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Meyer, J., Erbel, R., Pop, T., Rupprecht, H.J. (1986). Indications for early PTCA after thrombolysis. In: Effert, S., von Essen, R., Hugenholtz, P.G., Uebis, R., Verstraete, M. (eds) Facts and Hopes in Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07174-8_20
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