Effect Of Intracoronary And Systemic Thrombolysis With Streptokinase In Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction And Unstable Angina Pectoris. On Coagulation Tests And Plasminogen
Streptokinase, aplicated by intracoronary infusion in pat. with acute myocardial infarction has proven to be successfull in recanalisation of occluded coronary arteries. The good clinical, angiographic, chemical and EKG results suggests that jeopardized myocardium was salvaged by acute recanalisation. Till now, we infused Streptokinase (about 2000 U/min) in 78 pat. into the ischemia related occluded coronary artery. In this presentation we intend to demonstrate the results of these pat. and of a study, done before starting intracoronary Streptokinase infusion to be safe for bleeding complication. Neither after the infusion of 50 000 U.(n = 24) of 100 000 U. (n = 15) nor in 20 pat. who received SK equal to their ASTK-titres plus 50 000 U. SK whe found severe alterations of the blood-coagulation system. Only in the last group there was a small decrease of Fibrinogen of about 100 mg% and of Plasminogen 4 mg%. In none of the 78 pat., treated by intracoronary SK aplication, we resulted bleeding complication and the mean values of blood coagulation test remained within the normal range. On the other hand, we infused SK by veins and controlled the thrombolytic effect by coronarangiography. In 5 of 6 pat. we succeded in recanalisation of occluded coronary arteries within 45 Used very high dosages of SK, (about 2 Mill U) there was only a small decrease of 210 mg of Fibrinogen and no bleeding complications.