PMID- 29183704 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190207 LR - 20190215 IS - 1665-1731 (Electronic) IS - 1665-1731 (Linking) VI - 88 IP - 2 DP - 2018 Apr-Jun TI - Reperfusion of myocardial infarction in India: Notions for Mexico. PG - 148-152 LID - S1405-9940(17)30117-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.acmx.2017.10.006 [doi] AB - In India and Mexico, cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death and potential years of life lost. Close similarities exist between these two countries when facing the difficulties to establish a universal reperfusion program for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This paper describes the situation of STEMI treatment in both countries, and examines the lessons that Mexico's health care system could adopt from the recent advances accomplished by the STEMI initiative in India. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez. Publicado por Masson Doyma Mexico S.A. All rights reserved. FAU - Araiza-Garaygordobil, Diego AU - Araiza-Garaygordobil D AD - Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia "Ignacio Chavez", Unidad Coronaria, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. Electronic address: dargaray@gmail.com. FAU - Arias-Mendoza, Alexandra AU - Arias-Mendoza A AD - Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia "Ignacio Chavez", Unidad Coronaria, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. FAU - Martinez-Sanchez, Carlos AU - Martinez-Sanchez C AD - Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia "Ignacio Chavez", Unidad Coronaria, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. FAU - Martinez-Rios, Marco Antonio AU - Martinez-Rios MA AD - Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia "Ignacio Chavez", Direccion General, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. FAU - Ajit, Mullasari S AU - Ajit MS AD - Madras Medical Mission, Cardiology Department, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20171126 PL - Mexico TA - Arch Cardiol Mex JT - Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico JID - 101126728 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - India MH - Mexico MH - *Myocardial Reperfusion MH - ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/*surgery OTO - NOTNLM OT - Developing countries OT - India OT - Infarto agudo de miocardio con elevacion del segmento ST OT - Infarto del miocardio OT - Myocardial infarction OT - Mexico OT - Paises en desarrollo OT - Reperfusion OT - Reperfusion OT - ST elevation myocardial infarction EDAT- 2017/12/01 06:00 MHDA- 2019/02/08 06:00 CRDT- 2017/11/30 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/10/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/10/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/12/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/02/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/11/30 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1405-9940(17)30117-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.acmx.2017.10.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Cardiol Mex. 2018 Apr-Jun;88(2):148-152. doi: 10.1016/j.acmx.2017.10.006. Epub 2017 Nov 26.