Change of white blood cell count more prognostic important than baseline values after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-189

  Smit, Jaap Jan J ^a   Ottervanger, Jan Paul ^a   Kolkman, J J Evelien ^a   Slingerland, Robbert J ^a   Suryapranata, Harry ^a   Hoorntje, Jan C A ^a   Dambrink, Jan Henk E ^a   Gosselink, A T Marcel ^a   de Boer, Menko Jan ^a   van 't Hof, Arnoud W J ^a   on behalf of the On TIME study group, ^a  

^a Isala Klinieken ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TIROFIBAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYROSINE;

EID: 44549088090     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2007.10.025     Document Type: Article

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