NAPSR News: Inexpensive drug may minimize damage from heart attack

WASHINGTON - Oct. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Early treatment of heart attack patients with an inexpensive beta-blocker drug called metoprolol, while in transit to the hospital, can significantly reduce damage to the heart during a myocardial infarction, according to clinical trial study results published in the journal Circulation. The study was a collaboration between Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Spain and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

The study, involving emergency ambulances and seven hospitals across Spain, shows this simple, low-cost intervention strategy with metoprolol could be easily extended throughout the world, to provide significant clinical benefit and could change current treatment practice for heart attack patients. Currently, patients receive no medication before undergoing routine angioplasty, the standard treatment for removing a heart blockage that causes a heart attack and damages heart tissue.

Borja Ibáñez, MD, PhD, head of the Experimental Cardiology Group at CNIC and clinical cardiologist at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Spain, is the joint lead investigator of this novel study with Valentín Fuster, MD, PhD, General Director of CNIC, who also serves as Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Also, Dr. Fuster will begin his term in 2014 as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

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