Effect of emergency percutaneous coronary intervention on in-hospital mortality of very elderly (80+ years of age) patients with acute myocardial infarction

International Heart Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 663-669

  Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Masuda, Yuichiro ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Kimata, Takaya ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a   Uemura, Kazumasa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI); Japan; Mortality; Percutanous coronary intervention (PCI); Very elderly patient

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADL DISABILITY; AGED; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33751078539     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.47.663     Document Type: Article

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