Angiography after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation

Steffen Desch1, Anne Freund1, Ibrahim Akin1

  • 1From Heart Center Leipzig at the University of Leipzig, Departments of Internal Medicine-Cardiology (S.D., A.F., J.P., M.A.-W., P.L., A.J., H.T.) and Cardiac Surgery (S.W.-T.), Leipzig Heart Institute (S.D., A.F., A.J., H.T.), and University Clinic Leipzig (K.L.), Leipzig, University Heart Center Lübeck (S.D., T.G., I.E., G.F., A.J.) and the Center for Clinical Trials (D.O., S.B., K.K.) and the Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics (F.S., I.R.K., M.V.), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (S.D., A.F., I.A., M. Behnes, M.R.P., T.A.Z., C.S., U.L., T.G., I.E., G.F., F.H., S.B.F., S.F., J.L., M.J., C.L., C.J., A.J., D.O., F.S., I.R.K., S.B., M.V., K.K.) and University Clinic Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin (C.S., U.L.), Berlin, University Clinic Mannheim, Mannheim (I.A., M. Behnes), the Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Pneumology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (M.R.P., T.A.Z.), Kliniken Maria Hilf, Mönchengladbach (H.H.), University Clinic Würzburg, Würzburg (P.N.), University Clinic Greifswald, Greifswald (F.H., S.B.F.), University Clinic Frankfurt, Frankfurt (S.F.), Rechts der Isar Hospital, Technical University (J.L.), and the Department of Cardiology, German Heart Center (M.J.), Munich, the Department of Cardiology, Pneumology and Intensive Care, St. Vincenz Hospital, Limburg (S.S.), Kerckhoff Clinic, Bad Nauheim (C.L.), the Departments of Acute and Emergency Medicine and of Cardiology and Angiology, Elisabeth Hospital Essen, Essen (I.V.), Klinikum Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen (U.Z.), University Clinic Marien Hospital Herne, Klinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne (M. Brand), the University Heart Center, Bad Krozingen (R.S.), Diakonissenkrankenhaus Flensburg, Flensburg (J.H.), University Medicine Göttingen, Göttingen (C.J.), and Vincentius-Diakonissen Hospital, Karlsruhe (C.J.) - all in Germany; the Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna (T.A.Z.); and the Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, and the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen - both in Copenhagen (C.H., T.E.).

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