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Acute myocardial infarction

Streptokinase is a substance employed in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. How does this substance proceed?

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Substances termed as fibrinolytics, such as streptokinase and urokinase, can demolish thrombi (clots made within blood vessels, capillaries or within heart chambers) and are employed in the treatment of obstacles of the coronary arteries or other blood vessels. Streptokinase destroys the fibrin network and therefore it dissolves the thrombotic clot. Its name comes subsequent to the bacteria which produce it, the streptococci.

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