Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation. The Task Force on the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology.

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Published in Eur Heart J on January 01, 2003

Authors

Frans Van de Werf1, Diego Ardissino, Amadeo Betriu, Dennis V Cokkinos, Erling Falk, Keith A A Fox, Desmond Julian, Maria Lengyel, Franz-Josef Neumann, Witold Ruzyllo, Christian Thygesen, S Richard Underwood, Alec Vahanian, Freek W A Verheugt, William Wijns, Task Force on the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiology, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium.

Associated clinical trials:

The Viability-Guided Angioplasty After Acute Myocardial Infarction-Trial (The VIAMI-Trial) | NCT00149591

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