Efficacy of angioscopy in determining the effectiveness of intracoronary urokinase and TEC atherectomy thrombus removal from an occluded saphenous vein graft prior to stent implantation

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 335-337

  Kaplan, Barry M ^a   Safian, Robert D ^a   Goldstein, James A ^a   Grines, Cindy L ^a   O'Neill, William W ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary thrombus; extraction atherectomy; stent; urokinase

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; MALE; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STENT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THROMBUS;

ANGIOSCOPY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0029559025     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: 10970304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810360411     Document Type: Article

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