Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction

2. Overview, Rationale, and Lexicon: Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Warren J. Cantor

3. Comparison of Reperfusion Strategies for ST Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction: Primary Coronary Intervention Versus Fibrinolysis
Bruce R. Brodie

4. Operator and Site Requirements for Primary Coronary Intervention
Mark I. Hainer, Michael H. Sketch

5. Primary Coronary Intervention: The Technical Approach
James E. Tcheng, David A. Cox

6. Primary Coronary Intervention in Community Hospitals with Off-Site Cardiac Surgery Backup: Rationale and Steps to Quality
Thomas P. Wharton, Nancy Sinclair

7. Reducing System and Process Barriers: The RACE to Improve Door to Balloon Performance
James G. Jollis, Jenny C. Underwood

8. Rescue Coronary Intervention for Failed Thrombolysis
Nezar Falluji, David J. Moliterno, Debabrata Mukherjee

9. Facilitated Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Pantelis Diamantouros, Ing Haan Lim

10. Therapies Targeted at Preserving Microvascular Integrity and Preventing Reperfusion Injury
Yeraldine Toledo, Alan W. Heldman

11. Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Receptor Blockade in Primary Coronary Intervention
Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, Sorin J. Brener

12. Cell Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Geraldo A. Ramos, Joshua M. Hare, Alan W. Heldman

13. Health Economics of Primary PCI
Richard P. Konstance, Russell J. Ivanhoe

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Angiology, Internal Medicine, Cardiology