Randomised controlled trial of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator versus urokinase in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism.

@article{citeulike:2986533, abstract = {The effect of intravenous recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) was compared with that of urokinase in 45 patients with angiographically documented pulmonary embolism (PE) in a randomised controlled trial. The two principal end-points were clot lysis at 2 h, as assessed by angiography, and pulmonary reperfusion at 24 h, as assessed by perfusion lung scanning. All patients received the full dose of rt-PA but urokinase infusions were terminated prematurely (on average after 18 h) in 9 patients because of allergy in 1 and uncontrollable bleeding in 8. By 2 h, 82\% of rt-PA-treated patients showed clot lysis, compared with 48\% of urokinase-treated patients (p = 0.008; 95\% CI for the difference = 10-58\%). Improvement in lung scan reperfusion at 24 h was identical in the two treatment groups. The reduction in fibrinogen did not differ significantly between the rt-PA and urokinase groups (45\% vs 39\% at 2 h and 34\% vs 40\% at 24 h). The results indicate that in the dose regimens employed, rt-PA acts more rapidly and is safer than urokinase in the treatment of acute PE.}, address = {Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.}, author = {Goldhaber, S. Z. and Kessler, C. M. and Heit, J. and Markis, J. and Sharma, G. V. and Dawley, D. and Nagel, J. S. and Meyerovitz, M. and Kim, D. and Vaughan, D. E. }, citeulike-article-id = {2986533}, issn = {0140-6736}, journal = {Lancet}, keywords = {pe}, month = {August}, number = {8606}, pages = {293--298}, posted-at = {2008-07-11 03:06:25}, priority = {2}, title = {Randomised controlled trial of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator versus urokinase in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2899718}, volume = {2}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2986533 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2986533 TI - Randomised controlled trial of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator versus urokinase in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism. JF - Lancet VL - 2 IS - 8606 SP - 293 EP - 298 AD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. SN - 0140-6736 N2 - The effect of intravenous recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) was compared with that of urokinase in 45 patients with angiographically documented pulmonary embolism (PE) in a randomised controlled trial. The two principal end-points were clot lysis at 2 h, as assessed by angiography, and pulmonary reperfusion at 24 h, as assessed by perfusion lung scanning. All patients received the full dose of rt-PA but urokinase infusions were terminated prematurely (on average after 18 h) in 9 patients because of allergy in 1 and uncontrollable bleeding in 8. By 2 h, 82% of rt-PA-treated patients showed clot lysis, compared with 48% of urokinase-treated patients (p = 0.008; 95% CI for the difference = 10-58%). Improvement in lung scan reperfusion at 24 h was identical in the two treatment groups. The reduction in fibrinogen did not differ significantly between the rt-PA and urokinase groups (45% vs 39% at 2 h and 34% vs 40% at 24 h). The results indicate that in the dose regimens employed, rt-PA acts more rapidly and is safer than urokinase in the treatment of acute PE. KW - pe AU - Goldhaber, SZ AU - Kessler, CM AU - Heit, J AU - Markis, J AU - Sharma, GV AU - Dawley, D AU - Nagel, JS AU - Meyerovitz, M AU - Kim, D AU - Vaughan, DE PY - 1988/08/06/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2899718 ER -