Sudden death: Do cytokines and prothrombotic peptides contribute to the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-119

  Elmas, Elif ^a   Popp, Tatjana ^a   Lang, Siegfried ^a   Dempfle, Carl Erik ^a   Kälsch, Thorsten ^a   Borggrefe, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Inflammation; Myocardial infarction; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; D DIMER; FIBRIN MONOMER; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOPEPTIDE A; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PEPTIDE; PROTHROMBIN; PROTHROMBIN FRAGMENT F1.2; THROMBIN; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78049485618     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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