Journal article
Does Comorbidity Account for the Excess Mortality in Patients With Major Bleeding in Acute Myocardial Infarction?
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Analyses from randomized controlled trials suggest that bleeding in patients with acute myocardial infarction is associated with poor outcomes. Because these data are not generalizable to all patients with acute myocardial infarction, we sought to better understand the scope of this problem in a "real-world" setting.
METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined the frequency of major bleeding in 40,087 patients with acute myocardial infarction …
Authors
Spencer FA; Moscucci M; Granger CB; Gore JM; Goldberg RJ; Steg PG; Goodman SG; Budaj A; FitzGerald G; Fox KAA
Journal
Circulation, Vol. 116, No. 24, pp. 2793–2801
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
December 11, 2007
DOI
10.1161/circulationaha.107.694273
ISSN
0009-7322