Remote Ischemic Conditioning Reduces Myocardial Infarct Size in STEMI Patients Treated by Thrombolysis.
In many developing nations, where primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is not widely available, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients are still treated by thrombolysis (1). However, because thrombolytic therapy is less effective than PPCI at restoring blood flow in an infarct-related coronary artery, thrombolyzed STEMI patients experience larger myocardial infarcts and are