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Less aggressive approach better for treating patients who go into shock after heart attack – News-Medical.Net

Less is sometimes more when treating heart patients who go into shock after a heart attack.

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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 24 2020
Less is sometimes more when treating heart patients who go into shock after a heart attack.
A new study found that more than 30 percent of hospital patients who have a heart attack complicated by low blood pressure undergo an aggressive treatment in which coronary stents are placed in cardiac blood vessels showing any restriction of blood flow to the heart. This is happening despite the existence of a less aggressive approach, called a “culprit-onl…

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