A simple angiographic index to predict adverse clinical outcome associated with acute myocardial infarction

• Main Authors: Mustafa Tarık Ağaç (Author), Süret Ağaç (Author), Levent Korkmaz (Author), Hakan Erkan (Author), Turhan Turan (Author), Hüseyin Bektaş (Author), Ali Rıza Akyüz (Author), Mustafa Çetin (Author), Şükrü Çelik (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: The major determinant of final infarct size for a given coronary occlusion is the size of the myocardial areaat- risk. We propose herein a new index 'Relative Importance Index (RII)' to predict area-at-risk in patients with anterior myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of the st...