[Evaluation of the effect of intravenous administration of streptodecase on the extent of the damage in myocardial infarction].

Precordial mapping was employed to examine 29 patients with acute anterior transmural myocardial infarction (MI). Seventeen of them received intravenous streptokinase, eleven underwent symptomatic therapy. The size of the lesion was assessed in the course of the disease. It is shown that streptokinase administration within the initial 6 hours of MI promotes arrest of the ischemic lesion augmentation and eventually diminishes the area of MI.