A Randomized Trial of Immediate versus Delayed Elective Angioplasty after Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Acute Myocardial Infarction
- 3 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 317 (10), 581-588
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198709033171001
Abstract
We compared the efficacy of immediate coronary angioplasty after acute myocardial infarction with that of elective angioplasty at 7 to 10 days in patients treated initially with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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