Intravenous and intracoronary fibrinolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction: overview of results on mortality, reinfarction and side-effects from 33 randomized controlled trials.

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Published in Eur Heart J on July 01, 1985

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S Yusuf, R Collins, R Peto, C Furberg, M J Stampfer, S Z Goldhaber, C H Hennekens

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