Acute myocardial infarction and lesion location in the left circumflex artery: Importance of coronary artery dominance

EuroIntervention

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 441-448

  Waziri, Homa ^a   Jørgensen, Erik ^a   Kelbæk, Henning ^a   Fosbøl, Emil L ^a   Pedersen, Frantz ^a   Mogensen, Ulrik M ^a   Gerds, Thomas A ^b   Køber, Lars ^a   Wachtell, Kristian ^a,b,c  

^a Heart Centre   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Örebro University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coronary artery dominance; Left circumflex artery lesions; Mortality; Non ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTEACS); ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CIRCUMFLEX CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84983085256     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJY15M09_04     Document Type: Article

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