[Strategies to shorten the time from urgent admission to coronary angioplasty: a recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine].
A recent publication in New England Journal of Medicine stresses the fact that the mere presence of a coronarography equipment to dilate acute myocardial infarction is not sufficient to obtain the opening of the related myocardial infarction artery in due time.
Limet
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Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire et Thoracíque, Hôpital Universitaire de Liège, CHU du Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgique. rlimet@ulg.ac.be
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D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000628:therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome