Acute myocardial infarction occurring in versus out of the hospital: patient characteristics and clinical outcome
Ralf Zahn, MD*,
Rudolf Schiele, MDa,
Karlheinz Seidl, MDa,
Thomas Kapp, MD*,
Hans Georg Glunz, MD
,
Edwin Jagodzinski, MD
,
Thomas Voigtländer, MD
,
Martin Gottwik, MD||,
Gunther Berg, MD¶,
Helmut Thomas, MD#,
Jochen Senges, MDa for the Maximal Individual TheRapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (MITRA) Study Group
a Herzzentrum Ludwigshafen, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
* Vincentius Krankenhaus Speyer, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Westpfalz-Klinikum Kaiserslautern, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Marienkrankenhaus Ludwigshafen, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
|| Klinikum Nürnberg, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
¶ Universitätsklinikum Homburg/Saar, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
# Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Bad Dürkheim, Germany

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Figure 1 Selection of patients from the MITRA trial.
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Figure 2 Admission diagnosis in 88/403 (21.8%) of patients with in-hospital myocardial infarction.
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