Primary angioplasty versus prehospital fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction: a randomised study
Although both prehospital fibrinolysis and primary angioplasty provide a clinical benefit over in-hospital fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction, they have not been directly compared. Our aim was to find out whether primary angioplasty was better than prehospital fibrinolysis. We did a randomi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Lancet (British edition) 2002-09, Vol.360 (9336), p.825-829 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Although both prehospital fibrinolysis and primary angioplasty provide a clinical benefit over in-hospital fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction, they have not been directly compared. Our aim was to find out whether primary angioplasty was better than prehospital fibrinolysis.
We did a randomised multicentre trial of 840 patients (of 1200 planned) who presented within 6 h of acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation, initially managed by mobile emergency-care units. We assigned patients to prehospital fibrinolysis (n=419) with accelerated alteplase or primary angioplasty (n=421), and transferred all to a centre with access to emergency angioplasty. Our primary endpoint was a composite of death, non-fatal reinfarction, and non-fatal disabling stroke at 30 days. Analyses were by intention to treat.
The median delay between onset of symptoms and treatment was 130 min in the prehospital-fibrinolysis group and 190 min (time to first balloon inflation) in the primary-angioplasty group. Rescue angioplasty was done in 26% of the patients in the fibrinolysis group. The rate of the primary endpoint was 8·2% (34 patients) in the prehospital-fibrinolysis group and 6·2% (26 patients) in the primary-angioplasty group (risk difference 1·96, 95% CI−1·53 to 5·46). 16 (3·8%) patients assigned prehospital fibrinolysis and 20 (4·8%) assigned primary angioplasty died (p=0·61).
A strategy of primary angioplasty was not better than a strategy of prehospital fibrinolysis (with transfer to an interventional facility for possible rescue angioplasty) in patients presenting with early myocardial infarction. |
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ISSN: | 0140-6736 1474-547X |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09963-4 |