Benefit of an early invasive management strategy in women with acute coronary syndromes

JAMA

Volumn 288, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 3124-3129

  Glaser, Ruchira ^b   Herrmann, Howard C ^a,b   Murphy, Sabina A ^c   Demopoulos, Laura A ^d   DiBattiste, Peter M ^d   Cannon, Christopher P ^c   Braunwald, Eugene ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; TIROFIBAN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DEATH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0037176264     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.288.24.3124     Document Type: Article

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