Clinical value of 12-lead electrocardiography to predict the long-term prognosis of gissi-1 patients
Francesco Mauri, MD*,*,
Maria Grazia Franzosi, PhD
,
Aldo Pietro Maggioni, MD
,
Eugenio Santoro, MS
and
Luigi Santoro, MS
* Division of Cardiology, Ospedale Niguarda Ca Granda, Milano, Italy
Department of Cardiovascular Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri," Milano, Italy
Centro Studi, ANMCO, Firenze, Italy
Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri," Milano, Italy

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Figure 1 Ten-year survival curves for the four groups with different infarct sizes. The numbers near to the lines refer to electrocardiographic leads with ST-segment elevation.
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Figure 2 Plots of relative risk (RR) for the three groups with larger extents of myocardial injury versus the group with the smaller extent of injury over the different periods of follow-up.
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Figure 3 Survival curves for patients included in the four groups with different extents of myocardial injury and different treatments. C = control; SK = streptokinase.
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Figure 4 Survival curves for patients with different extents of myocardial injury and discharged alive from the hospital.
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