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Thrombolytic therapy provides the greatest benefit to patients with large transmural or anterior Q-wave myocardial infarctions, making precise diagnosis of infarct extent and site crucial.
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Highlights the importance of precise clinical diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction to identify patients who will benefit most from thrombolytic therapy.
The advent of thrombolytic therapy has increased the importance of and the need for precise etiologic and nosologic diagnosis in myocardial infarction. Patients who stand to benefit most from thrombolytic agents are those with large transmural, or Q-wave, infarctions in an anterior location. Thus, identification of the extent and site of the infarction takes on a new urgency.
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James T. Willerson (1989) studied this question. Thrombolytic therapy provides the greatest benefit to patients with large transmural or anterior Q-wave myocardial infarctions, making precise diagnosis of infarct extent and site crucial.
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