Clinical significance of coronary flow to the infarct zone before successful primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction

Chest

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1959-1963

  Hatada, Kengo ^a   Sugiura, Tetsuro ^b   Kamihata, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Seishi ^a   Takahashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Yuasa, Fumio ^a   Iwasaka, Toshiji ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Echocardiography; In hospital complications; Primary angioplasty; Residual coronary flow

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0035680764     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.120.6.1959     Document Type: Article

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