The impact of very late revascularization of occluded infarct-related artery on cardiac mortality and the incidence of sudden death in survivors of acute myocardial infarction - Long-term observation

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Ruta, Jan ^a   Bolińska, Halina ^a   Ptaszyński, Paweł ^a   Rosiak, Marcin ^a   Wranicz, Krzysztof Jerzy ^a   Kośmider, Maciej ^a   Jaszewski, Ryszard ^a   Zasłonka, Janusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

AMI; Cardiac mortality; Coronary angiography; IRA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REVASCULARIZATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036271388     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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