Intra-aortic balloon pump treatment for patients with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction after reperfusion therapy
“Intra-aortic balloon pump treatment for patients with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction after reperfusion therapy”, vol. 13, pp. 4280-4288, 2014.
, We evaluated the effects of an intra-aortic balloon pump on hemodynamics, brain natriuretic peptide concentration and cardiac function of patients with acute myocardial infarction, after reperfusion therapy. Sixty-three patients with acute anterior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention were given an intra-aortic balloon pump (32 cases) or not (control group, 31 cases). The mean pulmonary arterial pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and cardiac index were measured with a Swan-Ganz catheter.