Relation of Myocardial Blush Grade to Microvascular Perfusion and Myocardial Infarct Size After Primary or Rescue Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1671-1673

  Porto, Italo ^a   Burzotta, Francesco ^a   Brancati, Marta ^a   Trani, Carlo ^a   Lombardo, Antonella ^a   Romagnoli, Enrico ^a   Niccoli, Giampaolo ^a   Natale, Luigi ^a   Bonomo, Lorenzo ^a   Crea, Filippo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BLUSH GRADE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 34249864508     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.01.045     Document Type: Article

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