Improving reperfusion in patients with myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 634-637

  Vetrovec, George W ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; WARFARIN;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BALLOON CATHETER; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; ST SEGMENT; STENT; THROMBOSIS; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 38949215472     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0708910     Document Type: Editorial

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