Impact of the Japan earthquake disaster with massive Tsunami on emergency coronary intervention and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-203

  Itoh, Tomonori ^a   Nakajima, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Fumitaka ^a   Nishiyama, Osamu ^b   Matsumoto, Tatsuya ^c   Endo, Hiroshi ^d   Sakai, Toshiaki ^b   Nakamura, Motoyuki ^a   Morino, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Prefect Ninohe Hospital   (Japan)

^c Iwate Prefectural University   (Japan)

^d Iwate Prefectural Ofunato Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan earthquake disaster; mortality; percutaneous coronary intervention; ST elevation myocardial infarction; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME TO TREATMENT; TSUNAMI;

AGED; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84924357017     PISSN: 20488726     EISSN: 20488734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2048872614538388     Document Type: Article

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