Arterial Remodeling after Coronary Angioplasty: A Serial Intravascular Ultrasound Study

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-43

  Mintz, Gary S ^a   Popma, Jeffrey J ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Satter, Lowell F ^a   Wong, S Chiu ^a   Hong, Mun K ^a   Kovach, Julie A ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Remodeling; Restenosis; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ARTERIES; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030186375     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.1.35     Document Type: Article

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