Percutaneous coronary intervention and immediate re-transfer to the referring hospital for patients with acute coronary syndrome. A single-center experience;Angioplastica coronarica e immediato ritrasferimento all' ospedale di provenienza nei pazienti con sindrome coronarica acuta. La nostra esperienza

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 281-286

  Vendrametto, Fauzia ^a   Oberhollenzer, Rainer ^b   Pitscheider, Walter ^b  

^a UO di Cardiologia   (Italy)

^b Divisione di Cardiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Percutaneous coronary interventions

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN; ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SAFETY; SYNDROME; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SAFETY; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744469593     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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