Prognostic impact of sex on clinical outcomes following emergent coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-5

  Vaknin Assa, Hana ^a,b   Assali, Abid ^a,b   Fuchs, Shmuel ^a,b   Zafrir, Nili ^a,b   Kornowski, Ran ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Myocardial infarction; Sex; Stents

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33646989707     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200602000-00001     Document Type: Article

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