[Myocardial infarction aborted by rapid percutaneous coronary intervention]

Abstract

In a 55-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man with an ST segment elevation myocardial infarction confirmed by ECG, the infarction could still be aborted by percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting. An aborted myocardial infarction can be described as an acute myocardial infarction in which rapid reperfusion therapy allows normalization of ECG abnormalities with no meaningful cardiac enzyme abnormalities found in the blood. Scientific evidence shows fibrinolysis to be effective in aborting myocardial infarction, but for percutaneous coronary intervention this has not been proven. Nevertheless, the results of the 2 cases discussed in our article are promising.