HIGH MECHANICAL INDEX IMPULSES FROM A DIAGNOSTIC TRANSDUCER DURING AN INTRAVENOUS MICROBUBBLE INFUSION CAN REDUCE ULTIMATE INFARCT SIZE WHEN COMPARED TO FULL DOSE TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR IN ACUTE ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Samer Sayyed; Juefei Wu; John Lof; Thomas R. Porter; Feng Xie
- Source
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology. (12):A989
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Diagnostic ultrasound
business.industry
Acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
Infarct size
Tissue plasminogen activator
Transducer
Internal medicine
medicine
Cardiology
cardiovascular diseases
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Mechanical index
medicine.drug
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0735-1097
Guided high mechanical index (MI) impulses from a modified diagnostic ultrasound transducer may be able to reduce the residual microvascular obstruction (MO) that exists following epicardial recanalization in acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). We sought to determine how much