Primary angioplasty using a urokinase-coated hydrogel balloon in acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy

✍ Scribed by Glazier, James J. ;Eldin, Adel M. ;Hirst, Jeffrey A. ;Dougherty, James E. ;Mitchel, Joseph F. ;Waters, David D. ;McKay, Raymond G.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 402 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810360305

✦ Synopsis

A 38-year-old multigravid white female presented at 16 weeks gestation with an acute inferoposterolateral myocardial infarction. Emergent coronary angiography demonstrated a total proximal occlusion of a large dominant left circumflex artery with a filling defect at the site of the occlusion suggestive of thrombus. Primary angioplasty using a urokinasecoated hydrogel balloon resulted in successful recanalization of the vessel with restoration of normal TIMI Grade 111 flow and, most notably, apparent complete lysls of the intracoronary thrombus. After a subsequently uneventful pregnancy, a healthy baby was delivered.