Recommendations on percutaneous coronary intervention for the reperfusion of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction.

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Published in Heart on June 01, 2004

Authors

G Montalescot1, H R Andersen, D Antoniucci, A Betriu, M J de Boer, L Grip, F J Neumann, M T Rothman

Author Affiliations

1: Institut de Cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France. gilles.montalescot@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr

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