Clinical outcomes in patients with acute left circumflex/obtuse marginal occlusion presenting with myocardial infarction

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-33

  Stribling, W Kyle ^a   Kontos, Michael C ^a   Abbate, Antonio ^a   Cooke, Richard ^a   Vetrovec, George W ^a   Lotun, Kapildeo ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951622679     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2010.00599.x     Document Type: Article

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