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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
We performed a randomized study on patients undergoing elective coronary bypass grafting to examine whether postoperative infusion of nifedipine (n = 25) could reduce the incidence of isolated transient myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, or both. The control group (n = 25) received nitroglycerin. Hemodynamic and Holter monitoring and serial assessment of enzymatic and electrocardiographic changes were performed for all patients. Both groups showed comparable preoperative and operative data. The incidence of myocardial infarction was significantly lower in the nifedipine group (n = 1) as compared with the control group (n = 4), whereas the number of patients with isolated transient myocardial ischemia was similar in both groups (nifedipine, 3; control, 4). At the time of peak activity, levels of creatine kinase (350 +/- 129 versus 511 +/- 287 IU/mL), creatine kinase-MB (8.4 +/- 5.4 versus 17.1 +/- 11.0 IU/mL), and glutamate-oxaloacetate-transaminase (30.4 +/- 4.4 versus 41.0 +/- 7.9 IU/mL) were markedly lower in the nifedipine group (p less than 0.05). We conclude that infusion of nifedipine after elective coronary artery bypass grafting effectively decreases the incidence of myocardial infarction and the extent of myocardial necrosis during the early postoperative period.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0003-4975
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
61-7; discussion 67-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Cardiac Output, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Coronary Artery Bypass, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Coronary Disease, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Creatine Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Electrocardiography, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Electrocardiography, Ambulatory, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Female, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Infusions, Intravenous, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Male, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Myocardial Infarction, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Nifedipine, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Nitroglycerin, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Postoperative Care, pubmed-meshheading:2105087-Random Allocation
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Infusion of nifedipine after coronary artery bypass grafting decreases the incidence of early postoperative myocardial ischemia.
pubmed:affiliation
II. Department of Surgery, University of Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Trial