Management of acute myocardial infarction in the real world: A summary report from the Ami-Florence Italian Registry

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-115

  Balzi, Daniela ^a   Barchielli, Alessandro ^a   Santoro, Giovanni Maria ^b   Carrabba, Nazario ^c   Buiatti, Eva ^d   Giglioli, Cristina ^c   Valente, Serafina ^c   Baldereschi, Giorgio ^c   Del Bianco, Laura ^c   Monami, Matteo ^c   Gensini, Gian Franco ^c   Marchionni, Niccolò ^c  

^a Epidemiological Unit   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Nuovo S Giovanni di Dio   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Agenzia regionale di sanita della Toscana   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Ageing; Comorbidity; Coronary reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43749097247     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-008-0090-x     Document Type: Article

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