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• TITLE: Hemodynamic changes acutely determined by primary PCI in STEMI patients evaluated with a minimally invasive method

  AUTHORS: Cristina Giglioli, Omar Tujjar, Emanuele Cecchi, Daniele Landi, Marco Chiostri, Serafina Valente, Giorgio Jacopo Baldereschi, Francesco Meucci, Gian Franco Gensini, Salvatore Mario Romano

  KEYWORDS: STEMI; Primary PCI; Hemodynamic Monitoring; Cardiac Output

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, Vol.3 No.4A, July 18, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Objective: Few studies are available on the hemodynamic changes acutely determined by Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) patients, probably for the difficult evaluation of hemodynamic variables in this acute setting. Therefore, the paper is to evaluate the variations of several hemodynamic parameters determined by PCI using PRAM (Pressure Recording Analytical Method), minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring. Methods: We analyzed in 20 STEMI patients submitted to PCI several hemodynamic variables, assessed with PRAM from radial/ femoral artery, 3-minute before PCI and at endprocedure. Variables measures were: systolic, diastolic, dicrotic and mean arterial pressures; heart rate (HR); stroke volume (SV); systemic vascular resistance (SVR); dP/dtmax; cardiac cycle efficiency (CCE). Results: In our patients HR, SVR and dP/dtmax decreased significantly (85 ± 6.3 to 77 ± 4.5, p = 0.002; 1738 ± 241 to 1450 ± 253, p = 0.022; 1.22 ± 0.11 to 1.11 ± 0.12, p = 0.007, respectively) while CCE and SV increased significantly (?0.25 ± 0.23 to ?0.01 ± 0.12, p