Intravascular therapeutic ultrasound thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarctions

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 200-204

  Hamm, Christian W ^a   Steffen, Wolfgang ^b   Terres, Wolfram ^b   De Scheerder, Ivan ^b   Reimers, Jacobus ^b   Cumberland, David ^b   Siegel, Robert J ^b   Meinertz, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030746243     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00318-4     Document Type: Article

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