Management of acute coronary syndrome in the very elderly

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10023, 2016, Pages 1029-1030

  Psaltis, Peter J ^a,b   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLEEDING; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOTE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VERY ELDERLY; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROCEDURES;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

EID: 84961275858     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00036-2     Document Type: Note

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