Four-year survival of patients with acute coronary syndromes without ST- segment elevation and prognostic significance of 0.5-mm ST-segment depression

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 379-385

  Hyde, Thomas A ^a   French, John K ^a   Wong, Cheuk Kit ^a   Straznicky, Ivan T ^a   Whitlock, Ralph M L ^a   White, Harvey D ^a  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ASPIRIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033566949     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00319-7     Document Type: Article

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