Percutaneous coronary intervention for late reperfusion after myocardial infarction in stable patients

American Heart Journal

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1065-1071

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b,c   Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 36148988432     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.07.049     Document Type: Article

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