Pharmacoinvasive therapy: The future of treatment for ST-elevation myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2480-2486

  Antman, Elliott M ^a   Van De Werf, Frans ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY STENT; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FORECASTING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS;

EID: 2642549005     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000128736.57259.48     Document Type: Review

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