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    High incidence of acute coronary occlusion in patients without protocol positive ST segment elevation referred to an open access primary angioplasty programme

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    Author
    Apps, Andrew
    Malhotra, Aseem
    Tarkin, Jason
    Smith, Robert
    Kabir, Tito
    Lane, Rebecca
    Mason, Mark
    Ali, Omar
    Rogers, Paula
    Banya, Winston
    Whitbread, Mark cc
    Ilsley, Charles D.
    Dalby, Miles C.
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    Keyword
    Emergency Medical Services
    Chest Pain
    Myocardial Infarction
    Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
    Electrocardiogram
    Journal title
    Postgraduate Medical Journal
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/526
    DOI
    10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-130818
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    BACKGROUND: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) programmes vary in admission criteria from open referral to acceptance of electrocardiogram (ECG) protocol positive patients only. Rigid criteria may result in some patients with acutely occluded coronary arteries not receiving timely reperfusion therapy. OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of acute coronary occlusion and, in these cases, single time point biomarker estimates of myocardial infarct size between patients presenting with protocol positive ECG changes and those presenting with less diagnostic changes in the primary angioplasty cohort of an open access PPCI programme. METHODS: We retrospectively performed a single centre cross sectional analysis of consecutive patients receiving PPCI between January and August 2008. Cases were categorised according to presenting ECG-group A: protocol positive (ST segment elevation/left bundle branch block/posterior ST elevation myocardial infarction), group B: ST segment depression or T-wave inversion, or group C: minor ECG changes. Clinical characteristics, coronary flow grades and 12 h postprocedure troponin-I levels were reviewed. RESULTS: During the study period there were 513 activations of the PPCI service, of which 390 underwent immediate angiography and 308 underwent PPCI. Of those undergoing PPCI, 221 (72%) were in group A, 41 (13%) in group B and 46 (15%) in group C. Prevalence of coronary occlusion was 75% in group A compared with 73% in group B and 63% in group C. Median 12 h postintervention troponin-I (25th-75th percentile) for those with coronary occlusion was significantly higher in group A patients; 28.9 μg/l (13.2-58.5) versus 18.1 μg/l (6.7-32.4) for group B (p=0.03); and 15.5 μg/l (3.8-22.0) for group C (p<0.001), suggesting greater infarct size in group A. CONCLUSIONS: A number of patients referred to an open access PPCI programme have protocol negative ECGs but myocardial infarction and acute coronary artery occlusion amenable to angioplasty. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/89/1053/376.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-130818
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