Reduced inhospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction after practice of percutaneous coronary intervention at a remote hospital in Taiwan

Acta Cardiologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 86-93

  Tsai, Jui Peng ^a,b   Chen, Yung Chin ^a   Hung, Chung Lieh ^a,b   Cheng, Hsiao Yang ^a   Hou, Charles Jia Yin ^a,b   Kuo, Jen Yuan ^a,b   Wang, Kuang Te ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NURSING AND MANAGEMENT COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Elderly; In hospital mortality; Primary PCI

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

EID: 80052196469     PISSN: 10116842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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