A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of conventional stenting versus direct stenting in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 405-409

  Alak, Aiman ^a   Lugomirski, Peter ^b   Aleksova, Natasha ^a   Jolly, Sanjit S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute MI; myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention; risk reduction

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; TICLOPIDINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVENTIONAL STENTING; CORONARY STENT; CORONARY STENTING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DIRECT STENTING; EMBASE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBECTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DEVICES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROCEDURES; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STENTS;

EID: 84940912626     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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