KROK 1 2021 – Question 30 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient with myocardial infarction in the acute phase has been hospitalized into the cardiology unit. To induce platelet lysis in the patient's coronary vessels, the following enzyme should be used during the early hours of infarction:
- A. Lysozyme
- B. Trypsin
- C. Streptokinase
- D. Lydase (Hyaluronidase)
- E. Chymotrypsin
Hint
Think about how a clot is normally dissolved in the body and which of the listed enzymes can start that process when given in the first hours after coronary occlusion; the others act on different substrates.
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