Higher, mortality in women undergoing primary angioplasty. Another gender enigma?;Mayor mortalidad en la angioplastia primaria en la mujer. ¿Sigue el enigma del sexo?

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1096-1098

  Figueras, Jaume ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 33846409977     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13095777     Document Type: Editorial

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