Acute myocardial infarction due to left main coronary artery disease: A large multicenter national registry

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-196

  Sadowski, Marcin ^a   Gutkowski, Wojciech ^a   Janion Sadowska, Agnieszka ^a   Gasior, Mariusz ^b   Gierlotka, Marek ^b   Janion, Marianna ^a,c   Poloński, Lech ^b  

^a Swietokrzyski Center of Cardiology Kielce   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Gender; Left main coronary artery; Mortality; Therapeutic strategy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLAND; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885220162     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: 1898018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.2013.0033     Document Type: Article

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