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| − | + | '''<span style="font-size:18.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">Hyperbaric oxygen with thrombolysis in myocardial infarction: positive effect on cardiac echo indices</span></span></span>''' | |
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| + | '''<span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">Clinical Bottom Line:</span></span></span>''' | ||
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| + | <span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">1. Hyperbaric oxygen with thrombolysis produced improvements in left ventricular function</span></span></span><br/> <span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">2. The clinical significance is unclear</span></span></span></span> | ||
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| − | + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Citation/s:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">1. Dekleva MN, Ostojic M, Vujnovic D. Hyperbaric oxygen and thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction: a preliminary report. In: Sitinen SA, Leinio M, eds. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS), Helsinki, Finland 1995:9-13 2. Dekleva M, Neskovic A, Vlahovic A et al. Adjunctive effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment after thrombolysis on left ventricular function in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2004; 148(4):589.</span></span></span></span></span> | |
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Lead author's name and fax:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Milica Dekleva</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Three-part Clinical Question:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">In patients suffering acute myocardial infarction, does the addition of hyperbaric oxygen therapy improve echocardiography / angiography results, when compared to standard therapy including a thrombolytic.</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Search Terms:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Myocardial infarction, echocardiography; thrombolytic therapy</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">The Study:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Single-blinded (outcome observer) randomised controlled trial without intention-to-treat.</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">The Study Patients:</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133"><70 years old, chest pain unrelieved by anginine, ST-segment elevation, transient CK and/or MB isoenzyme rises, 1st echo within 24 hours of pain onset. Exclusions: previous MI, bypass surgery, unstable (arrhythmia, etc), heart failure, as well as standard thrombolytic and HBOT contraindications.</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Control group</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">(N = 37; 37 analysed): Streptokinase (1.5mU/L), followed by heparin.</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Experimental group</span></span></span>'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">(N = 37; 37 analysed): As above, followed by HBOT: one treatment - 2.0 ATA for 60 minutes.</span></span></span></span></span> | ||
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| + | <span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">The Evidence:</span></span></span>'''</span></span> | ||
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| − | + | | style="width:77.75pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Outcome</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | |
| − | + | | style="width:2.0cm; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="76" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Time to Outcome</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | |
| + | | style="width:49.6pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="66" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Control group</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:42.5pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="57" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">HBO group</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Relative risk reduction</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:77.95pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Absolute risk reduction</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:3.0cm; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; background:white" width="113" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">NNT</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
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| + | <span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Cardiac Mortality</span></span></span>'''</span> | ||
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| − | + | | style="width:49.6pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="66" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">0.027</span></span></span></span></p> | |
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| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">100%</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:77.95pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">0.027</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:49.6pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; background:white" width="66" | | ||
| + | | style="width:42.5pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="57" | <p align="right" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">95% CI:</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:77.95pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">-0.03 to 0.08</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:3.0cm; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="113" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">NNT 13 to INF</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | <span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Angiography - collaterals</span></span></span>'''</span> | ||
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| + | | style="width:49.6pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="66" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">0.243</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">5%</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:77.95pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">0.027</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:42.5pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="57" | <p align="right" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">95% CIs:</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">-37% to 47%</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:77.95pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="104" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">-0.20 to 0.25</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
| + | | style="width:3.0cm; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="113" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">NNT 4 to INF;'''</span></span></span></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">NNH'''</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">5 to INF</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">0%</span></span></span></span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:49.6pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="66" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">Control Group</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
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| + | | style="width:70.9pt; border-top:none; border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; background:white" width="95" | <p align="center" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="line-height:normal">'''<span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="font-family:" helvetica",sans-serif"=""><span style="color:#001133">HBO Group</span></span></span>'''</span></p> | ||
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Hyperbaric oxygen with thrombolysis in myocardial infarction: positive effect on cardiac echo indices
Clinical Bottom Line:
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1. Hyperbaric oxygen with thrombolysis produced improvements in left ventricular function |
Citation/s:1. Dekleva MN, Ostojic M, Vujnovic D. Hyperbaric oxygen and thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction: a preliminary report. In: Sitinen SA, Leinio M, eds. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS), Helsinki, Finland 1995:9-13 2. Dekleva M, Neskovic A, Vlahovic A et al. Adjunctive effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment after thrombolysis on left ventricular function in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2004; 148(4):589.
Lead author's name and fax:Milica Dekleva
Three-part Clinical Question:In patients suffering acute myocardial infarction, does the addition of hyperbaric oxygen therapy improve echocardiography / angiography results, when compared to standard therapy including a thrombolytic.
Search Terms:Myocardial infarction, echocardiography; thrombolytic therapy
The Study:Single-blinded (outcome observer) randomised controlled trial without intention-to-treat.
The Study Patients:<70 years old, chest pain unrelieved by anginine, ST-segment elevation, transient CK and/or MB isoenzyme rises, 1st echo within 24 hours of pain onset. Exclusions: previous MI, bypass surgery, unstable (arrhythmia, etc), heart failure, as well as standard thrombolytic and HBOT contraindications.
Control group(N = 37; 37 analysed): Streptokinase (1.5mU/L), followed by heparin.
Experimental group(N = 37; 37 analysed): As above, followed by HBOT: one treatment - 2.0 ATA for 60 minutes.
The Evidence:
Outcome |
Time to Outcome |
Control group |
HBO group |
Relative risk reduction |
Absolute risk reduction |
NNT |
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Cardiac Mortality |
3 weeks? |
0.027 |
0 |
100% |
0.027 |
37 |
95% CI: |
-0.03 to 0.08 |
NNT 13 to INF NNH40 to INF | ||||
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Angiography - collaterals |
3 weeks? |
0.243 |
0.243 |
5% |
0.027 |
37 |
95% CIs: |
-37% to 47% |
-0.20 to 0.25 |
NNT 4 to INF; NNH5 to INF | |||
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Angiography - reperfusion |
3 weeks? |
0.595 |
0.595 |
0% |
0.000 |
INF |
95% CIs: |
-38% to 38% |
-0.22 to 0.22 |
NNT 4 to INF; NNH4 to INF | |||
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Control Group |
HBO Group |
Difference |
95% CI | |||
Mean |
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Mean |
SD |
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Peak CK value (U/L) |
1529 |
1187 |
989 |
643 |
540 |
98.154 to 981.846 |
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Time to outcome |
Control group |
HBO group |
P-value |
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Echo - ejection fraction |
3 weeks |
44.05% |
50.81% |
<.001 |
Comments:
1. Not clear if diagnosis was clinical at enrolment or after later on enzyme changes
2. Exact details of randomisation and at what point patients were excluded is unclear.
3. Results often presented graphically and as within-group comparisons.
4. Reperfusion was defined as reaching Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial classification 3.5. Mortality was the only clinical outcome.
Appraised by:James Hudgell, Department of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Prince of Wales Hospital; Friday, 21 October 2005
Kill or Update By:June 2025