Improvement in three-month angiographic outcome suggested after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (Zwolle trial) compared with successful thrombolysis (APRICOT trial)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 763-767

  Veen, Gerrit ^a   De Boer, Menko Jan ^b   Zijlstra, Felix ^b   Verheugt, Freek W A ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL DE WEEZENLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART REINFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0032887103     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00434-8     Document Type: Article

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