Is door-to-balloon time the best metric to assess successful treatment of STEMI?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 408-409

  Conti, C Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CELL DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOOR TO BALLOON TIME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SALVAGE THERAPY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAVE FRONT PHENOMENON;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOGS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960424186     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20911     Document Type: Note

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