Is coronary angiography performed in the appropriate patients after acute myocardial infarction? Clinical and angiographic findings and one-year mortality in a large unselected cohort of 2493 consecutive patients in a French region (the PRIMA study)

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-29

  De Gevigney, Guy ^a   Rabilloud, Muriel ^b   Écochard, René ^b   McFadden, Eugene ^a   Meunier, Ludovic ^a   Cheneau, Edouard ^a   Delahaye, François ^a   Colin, C ^c   Ecochard, R ^c  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Dept d'Info/de Biostatist Med ^*  (France)

^c HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Myocardial infarction; One year mortality; PRIMA study; Registry

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; Q WAVE; REGISTER;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 0344837873     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.58.1.2005255     Document Type: Article

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