Affiliation:
1. Tyumen Cardiology Research Center, Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the preventive use of glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and a high risk of «no-reflow» phenomenon.Material and Methods. A total of 100 patients were included in the study. For all patients, the risk of no-reflow was calculated using a previously developed scoring system. In case of high risk, GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors were administered according to the decision of the interventional cardiologist. The rate of no-reflow as well as the rates of death, recurrent myocardial infarction and stent thrombosis were analyzed.Results. High risk of no-reflow was determined in 37 patients, low risk of no-reflow – in 63 patients. In the high-risk group 22 patients (59.5%) GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors were preventively used. In these patients, the frequency of no-reflow was lower compared with high-risk patients who did not receive preventive GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors (9.1 vs. 46.7%, p = 0.017). With the preventive use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors in high-risk patients, the rates of no-reflow (9.1 vs. 11.1%, p = 1.000) and angiographic success of percutaneous coronary intervention (72.7 vs. 84.1%, p = 0.341) were comparable with low-risk patients.Conclusion. The preventive use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors in patients with STEMI and a high risk was associated with reduction of «no-reflow». In the prophylactic use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors in patients with STEMI and a high risk of no-reflow, the results of their treatment were comparable to patients with a low risk of no-reflow.
Publisher
Cardiology Research Institute
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Medicine (miscellaneous),Internal Medicine