Effects of thrombolytic therapy in acute inferior myocardial infarction with or without right ventricular involvement

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 876-881

  Zeymer, Uwe ^b   Neuhaus, Karl Ludwig ^b   Wegscheider, Karl ^a   Tebbe, Ulrich ^c   Molhoek, Peter ^d   Schröder, Rolf ^a  

^a Coord Centers of the HIT 4 Trial ^*  (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM LIPPE DETMOLD   (Germany)

^d MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STREPTOKINASE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0032191363     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00344-1     Document Type: Article

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