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Treatment of Heart Attack
March 29th, 2010
The goals of heart attack treatment are to return blood flow to your heart muscle, bring back a regular heartbeat, and give your heart time to recover.
The development of “clot busters” called thrombolytic agents (streptokinase, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator) has increased survival rates for heart attack patients when these medicines are given as soon as possible after an attack. The term thrombolysis means to break up a clot, and that is exactly what these medicines do. In some cases, these medicines can break up a clot within minutes. To work best, they must be given as soon as possible after a heart attack. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anticoagulants, Catheterization laboratory, Heart attack, Thrombolytic agents, Treatment | 
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