Table 1.

Patient characteristics

AMI phase	Infarct age	Number of patients	Male/Female	Age range
Early phase	0–12 h	20	11/9	36–88
PMN phase	12 h to 5 days	19	14/5	47–85
Chronic phase	5–14 days	6	5/1	62–75
Reinfarction early phase	0–12 h	9	6/3	45–85
Reinfarction PMN phase	12 h to 5 days	8	7/1	50–83

AMI, acute myocardial infarction; h, hours; PMN, polymorphonuclear leucocytes.