Effect of comorbidity on coronary reperfusion strategy and long-term mortality after acute myocardial infarction

American Heart Journal

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1094-1100

  Balzi, Daniela ^a   Barchielli, Alessandro ^a   Buiatti, Eva ^b   Franceschini, Caterina ^c   Lavecchia, Rinaldo ^c   Monami, Matteo ^c   Santoro, Giovanni Maria ^d   Carrabba, Nazario ^e   Margheri, Massimo ^c   Olivotto, Iacopo ^e   Gensini, Gian Franco ^c   Marchionni, Niccolò ^c  

^a Local Health Unit 10   (Italy)

^b Regional Agency for Public Health of Tuscany   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY REPERFUSION; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 33748695770     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.06.037     Document Type: Article

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