Usefulness of myocardial blush grade early and late after primary coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction in predicting left ventricular function

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1015-1019

  Hoffmann, Rainer ^a,b   Haager, Philipp ^a   Arning, Jan ^a   Christott, Philipp ^a   Radke, Peter ^a   Blindt, Rüdiger ^a   Ortlepp, Jan ^a   Lepper, Wolfgang ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

EID: 0142227661     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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