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To the Editor: Before medical professionals consider changing their practice of administering thrombolytic agents on the basis of the presence or absence of preinfarction angina, as is suggested by Andreotti et al. (Jan. 4 issue),¹ we feel obligated to comment on their study and present more recent data disputing their findings. The study involved a small number of patients (23) treated between 1987 and 1989 and used a less effective regimen of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) than is currently used. Nevertheless, after 90 minutes of treatment they obtained a flow of grade 3 (according to the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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