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Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quant...

Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quant...

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Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quantitative review of 23 randomised trials

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Full title

Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quantitative review of 23 randomised trials

Publisher

London: Elsevier Ltd

Journal title

The Lancet (British edition), 2003-01, Vol.361 (9351), p.13-20

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English

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London: Elsevier Ltd

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Contents

Many trials have been done to compare primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with thrombolytic therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (AMI). Our aim was to look at the combined results of these trials and to ascertain which reperfusion therapy is most effective.
We did a search of published work and i...

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Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quantitative review of 23 randomised trials

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_72950670

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_72950670

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ISSN

0140-6736

E-ISSN

1474-547X

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12113-7

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