Solid-state mid-infrared laser facilitated coronary angioplasty: Clinical and quantitative coronary angiographic results in 112 patients

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 260-272

  Topaz, On ^a,b   Rozenbaum, Eliezer A ^a   Schumacher, Audrey ^a   Luxenberg, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HUNTER HOLMES MCGUIRE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

angioplasty; coronary; holmium; infarction; laser; thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LASER ANGIOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, LASER-ASSISTED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 0029985024     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:3<260::AID-LSM2>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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