Clinical features and outcome of patients with direct percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction resulting from left circumflex artery occlusion

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Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2068-2074

  Yip, Hon Kan ^a   Wu, Chiung Jen ^a   Fu, Morgan ^a   Yeh, Kuo Ho ^a   Yu, Teng Hung ^a   Hung, Wei Chin ^a   Chen, Mien Cheng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Left circumflex occlusion; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPERFUSION; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

EID: 0036932554     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.122.6.2068     Document Type: Article

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