Time delay in primary angioplasty: How relevant is it?

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1164-1166

  Dudek, Dariusz ^a   Rakowski, Tomasz ^a   Dziewierz, Artur ^a   Mielecki, Waldemar ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848819437     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.112805     Document Type: Review

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