Should all patients presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infraction undergo primary percutaneous coronary intervention?

Dialogues in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 168-173

  Menozzi, Alberto ^a   Vignali, Luigi ^a   Solinas, Emilia ^a   Ardissino, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Fibrinolysis; Myocardial infraction; Percutaneous coronary intervention; STE MI; Time to balloon

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY INTERVENTION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 31144463520     PISSN: 12729949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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