Predictors of treatment in acute coronary syndromes in the elderly: Impact on Decision Making and Clinical Outcome after Interventional Versus Conservative Treatment

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 735-743

  Rittger, Harald ^a   Schnupp, Steffen ^b   Sinha, Anil Martin ^b   Breithardt, Ole Alexander ^a   Schmidt, Martin ^c   Zimmermann, Stefan ^a   Mahnkopf, Christian ^b   Brachmann, Johannes ^b   Rieber, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM COBURG   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndrome; acute therapy; elderly; treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867894358     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.23426     Document Type: Article

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