White blood cell count and long term mortality after non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome treated with very early revascularisation

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-392

  Mueller, C ^a,b   Neumann, F J ^a   Perruchoud, A P ^b   Buettner, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON ST ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; T WAVE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0037379851     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.4.389     Document Type: Article

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