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J Am Coll Cardiol, 1998; 31:1511-1517
© 1998 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Rescue angioplasty after failed thrombolysis: technical and clinical outcomes in a large thrombolysis trial. GUSTO-1 Angiographic Investigators. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries

AM Ross, CF Lundergan, SC Rohrbeck, DH Boyle, M van den Brand, CH Buller, DR Holmes Jr, and JS Reiner

George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the angiographic outcome, complication rates and clinical features of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) after failed thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND: "Rescue angioplasty" refers to mechanical reopening of an occluded infarct-related artery (IRA) after failed intravenous thrombolysis. Although the procedure is commonly performed, data describing its technical and clinical outcome are sparse. Early reports suggested that rescue PTCA is less often successful and produces more complications than primary PTCA. Other reports have described beneficial effects of successful rescue PTCA but adverse outcomes when PTCA is unsuccessful. METHODS: Using data from the Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO-1) angiographic substudy, we compared clinical and angiographic outcomes of 198 patients selected for a rescue PTCA attempt with those of 266 patients with failed thrombolysis but managed conservatively and, for reference, with those of 1,058 patients with successful thrombolysis. RESULTS: Patients offered rescue PTCA had more impaired left ventricular function than those in whom closed vessels were managed conservatively. Rescue successfully opened 88.4% of closed arteries, with 68% attaining Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) grade 3 flow. The interventions did not increase catheterization laboratory or postprocedural complication rates. Multivariate analysis identified severe heart failure to be a determinant of a failed rescue attempt. Successful rescue PTCA resulted in superior left ventricular function and 30-day mortality outcomes, comparable to outcomes in patients with closed IRAs managed conservatively, but less favorable than in patients in whom thrombolytic therapy was initially successful. The mortality rate after a failed rescue attempt was 30.4%; however, five of the seven patients who died after failed rescue PTCA were in cardiogenic shock before the procedure. CONCLUSIONS: Rescue PTCA tends to be selected for patients with clinical predictors of a poor outcome. It is effective in restoring patency. Patients who die after a failed rescue attempt are often already in extremis before the angioplasty attempt.


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