Significant decrease in in-hospital mortality and major adverse cardiac events in Swiss STEMI patients between 2000 and December 2007

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 139, Issue 31-32, 2009, Pages 453-457

  Steiger, Valérie Stolt ^a   Goy, Jean Jacques ^a   Stauffer, Jean Christophe ^a   Radovanovic, Dragana ^b   Duvoisin, Nicole ^b   Urban, Philip ^c   Bertel, Osmund ^d   Erne, Paul ^e  

^a Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LA TOUR HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e Division of Cardiology Kantonsspital Luzern   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angioplasty, STEMI, PCI; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART REINFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE;

EID: 68549136707     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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