Door to balloon time: how short is enough under highly accessible nationwide insurance coverage? Analysis from the Japanese multicenter registry

Int J Cardiol. 2013 Sep 20;168(1):534-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.276. Epub 2013 Mar 9.

Authors

Masaki Kodaira¹, Akio Kawamura, Hiroaki Miyata, Shigetaka Noma, Masahiro Suzuki, Shiro Ishikawa, Yukihiro Momiyama, Susumu Nakagawa, Koichiro Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Shinichi Takamoto, Satoshi Ogawa, Yuji Sato, Shun Kohsaka, Keiichi Fukuda; JCD-KICS Investigators

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: mskodaira@gmail.com.

PMID: 23490079
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.276

No abstract available

Keywords: Balloon; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Reperfusion.

Publication types

Letter
Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / trends*
Female
Humans
Insurance Coverage / trends*
Japan / epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis
Myocardial Infarction / epidemiology*
Myocardial Infarction / therapy*
Registries*
Time-to-Treatment / trends*