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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 30, 2004
European Heart Journal 2005 26(1):1-2; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi062
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Editorial

The veteran and the rookie

Philip Urban*

Cardiovascular Department, La Tour Hospital, Avenue Maillard 1, 1217 Meyrin-Geneva, Switzerland

online publish-ahead-of-print 30 November 2004 * Tel: +4122 719 6126; fax: +4122 719 6128. E-mail address: purban@latour.ch

This editorial refers to ‘Mortality rates in patients with ST-elevation vs. non-ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction: observations from an unselected cohort’{dagger} by C.J. Terkelsen et al., on page 18

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Clinical registries have systematically shown that routine clinical practice deals with sicker patients and faces higher morbidity and mortality than the artificial environment of strictly defined randomized-controlled trials might otherwise suggest.1–3 The series of Terkelsen et al.,4 in the present issue of the European Heart Journal, focuses on a cohort of 654 patients, representing all patients admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from a catchments area of 139 000 inhabitants in Denmark. Their data are of particular interest because (i) they constitute an attempt to describe ‘real life’ in a comprehensive manner by targeting and checking all hospital admissions, rather than relying on voluntary reports from selected participating centres;1–3 and (ii) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

STEMI vs. NSTEMI

Acute haemodynamic status


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