Towards an understanding of the role of rescue angioplasty for failed fibrinolysis: Comparison of the MERLIN, RESCUE and REACT trials

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 359-368

  Kunadian, Babu ^a   Vijayalakshmi, Kunadian ^a   Dunning, Joel ^a   Sutton, Andrew ^a   De Belder, Mark A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Myocardial infarction; Rescue PTCA; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; RETEPLASE; STREPTOKINASE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY STENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REINFARCTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34548590867     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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