Effect of Low-dose Intracoronary Reteplase on Myocardial Infarct Size During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Summary

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a therapeutic strategy involving low-dose intracoronary fibrinolytic therapy with reteplase infused after coronary reperfusion will reduce the myocardial infarction size. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: 306 patients presenting at 15 hospitals in China within 12 hours of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to a proximal-mid-vessel occlusion of left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery occlusion will be randomized in a 1:1:1 dose-ranging trial design. Patients will be followed up to 1 month. INTERVENTIONS: Participants will be randomly assigned to treatment with placebo (n = 102), reteplase 9mg (n = 102), or reteplase 18mg (n = 102) by manual infusion over 2 minutes after reperfusion of the infarct-related coronary artery and before stent implant. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcomewas the myocardial infarct size (% left ventricular mass) demonstrated by contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) conducted from days 2 through 7 after enrollment.

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Start

2021-07-01

Primary completion

2023-01-31

Completion

2023-01-31

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• Results Huang D, Ma Y, Wu H, Zhong X, Gao W, Zhou J, Qian J, Ge J. Impact of intracoronary reteplase during primary percutaneous coronary intervention on infarct size in large anterior myocardial infarction: rationale and design of the RECOVER II trial. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2022 Jun;12(3):352-359. doi: 10.21037/cdt-21-756.

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