How should we evaluate an open artery in STEMI patients?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 634-636

  Agewall, Stefan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 17144376402     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi217     Document Type: Editorial

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