Effect of reperfusion on biventricular function and survival after right ventricular infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 933-940

  Bowers, Terry R ^a   O'Neill, William W ^a   Grines, Cindy ^a   Pica, Mark C ^a   Safian, Robert D ^a   Goldstein, James A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0032473827     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199804023381401     Document Type: Article

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