Influences of electrocardiographic ischaemia grades and symptom duration on outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolysis versus primary percutaneous coronary intervention: Results from the DANAMI-2 trial

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1577-1582

  Sejersten, M ^a   Birnbaum, Y ^b   Ripa, R S ^a   Maynard, C ^c   Wagner, G S ^d   Clemmensen, P ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART REINFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RECURRENCE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750368359     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.085639     Document Type: Article

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