Prognostic importance of myocardial ischemia detected by ambulatory monitoring early after acute myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 65-70

  Gill, John B ^a,b   Cairns, John A ^a   Roberts, Robin S ^a   Costantini, Lorrie ^a   Sealey, Brian J ^a   Fallen, Ernest F ^a   Tomlinson, Charles W ^a   Gent, Michael ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0030053164     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199601113340201     Document Type: Article

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