Pre- and early in-hospital procedures in patients with acute coronary syndromes: first results of the "German chest pain unit registry".

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Published in Clin Res Cardiol on July 25, 2012

Authors

Felix Post1, Evangelos Giannitsis, Thomas Riemer, Lars S Maier, Claus Schmitt, Burghard Schumacher, Gerd Heusch, Harald Mudra, Thomas Voigtländer, Rainer Erbel, Harald Darius, Hugo Katus, Christian Hamm, Jochen Senges, Tommaso Gori, Thomas Münzel

Author Affiliations

1: 2nd Department of Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany.

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