ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation.

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Published in Eur Heart J on August 24, 2012

Authors

Task Force on the management of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)1, Ph Gabriel Steg, Stefan K James, Dan Atar, Luigi P Badano, Carina Blömstrom-Lundqvist, Michael A Borger, Carlo Di Mario, Kenneth Dickstein, Gregory Ducrocq, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, Anthony H Gershlick, Pantaleo Giannuzzi, Sigrun Halvorsen, Kurt Huber, Peter Juni, Adnan Kastrati, Juhani Knuuti, Mattie J Lenzen, Kenneth W Mahaffey, Marco Valgimigli, Arnoud van 't Hof, Petr Widimsky, Doron Zahger

Author Affiliations

1: AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat / Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité / INSERM U-698, Paris, France. gabriel.steg@bch.aphp.fr

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