Intracoronary Thrombectomy Improves Myocardial Reperfusion in Patients Undergoing Direct Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1395-1402

  Napodano, Massimo ^a   Pasquetto, Giampaolo ^a   Saccà, Salvatore ^a   Cernetti, Carlo ^a   Scarabeo, Virginia ^a   Pascotto, Pietro ^a   Reimers, Bernhard ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (Italy)

^b Mirano Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ST SEGMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142107365     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)01041-6     Document Type: Article

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