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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Angiogram and may include medication, percutaneous coronary intervention or bypass surgery.MedicationsMedications given to treat a myocardial infarction might include:Aspirin. The emergency services operator might tell you to take aspirin, or emergency medical personnel might give you aspirin immediately. Aspirin reduces blood clotting, thus helping maintain blood flow through a narrowed artery.Thrombolytics. These drugs, also called clotbusters, help dissolve a blood clot that’s blocking blood flow to your heart. The earlier you receive a thrombolytic drug after a myocardial infarction, the greater the chance you’ll survive and have less heart damage.Antiplatelet agents. Emergency room doctors may give you other drugs known as platelet aggregation inhibitors to help prevent new clots and keep existing clots from getting larger.Other blood-thinning medications. You’ll likely be given other medications, such as heparin, to make your blood less “sticky” and less likely to form clots. Heparin is given intravenously or by an injection under your skin.Pain relievers. You might be given a pain reliever, such as morphine.Nitroglycerin. This medication, used to treat chest pain (angina), can help improve blood flow to the heart by widening (dilating) the blood vessels.Beta blockers. These medications help relax your heart muscle, slow your heartbeat and decrease blood pressure, making your heart’s job easier. Beta blockers can limit the amount of heart muscle damage and prevent future myocardial infarctions.ACE inhibitors. These drugs lower blood pressure and reduce stress on the heart.Statins. These drugs help control your blood cholesterol.ThrombolyticsMedications used to break down blood clots, known as thrombolytics or fibrinolytics, are usually given by injection.Thrombolytics or fibrinolytics, target and destroy a substance called fibrin. Fibrin is a tough protein that makes up blood clots by acting like a sort of fibre mesh that hardens around the blood.Some examples of thrombolytics include:reteplasealteplasestreptokinaseYou may also be given an additional medication called a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor if it is thought you have an increased risk of experiencing another myocardial infarction at some point in the near future.Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors don’t break up blood clots, but they prevent blood clots from getting bigger. They’re an effective method of stopping your symptoms getting worse.Surgical and other proceduresIn addition to medications, you might have one of these procedures to treat your myocardial infarction:Coronary angioplasty and stenting. In this procedure, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), doctors insert a long, thin tube (catheter) that’s passed through an artery in your groin or wrist to a blocked artery in your heart. If you’ve had a myocardial infarction, this procedure is often done immediately after a cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to find blockages. This catheter has a special balloon that, once in position, is briefly inflated to open a blocked coronary artery. A metal mesh stent might then be inserted into the artery to keep it open long term, restoring blood flow to the heart. Depending on your condition, you might get a stent coated with a slow-releasing medication to help keep your artery open.Coronary artery bypass surgery also known as a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). In some
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