The open artery hypothesis: Beneficial effects and long-term prognostic importance of patency of the infarct-related coronary artery

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-44

  Centurión, Osmar Antonio ^a,b  

^a Clinical Hospital   (Paraguay)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (Paraguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PLACEBO; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION PREVENTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFLAMMATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SURVIVAL; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33847010138     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319706295212     Document Type: Review

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