Does coronary stenting following balloon angioplasty improve myocardial fractional flow reserve?

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 459-463

  Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a,b   Himeno, Etsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine 5' triphosphate; Coronary artery disease; Coronary stenting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031741890     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709900304     Document Type: Article

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