Endovascular stenting of an unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis in a heart transplant patient

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 919-922

  Weston, Mark W ^a,b,d   Spoto Jr , Edward ^a,b   Aranda, Juan ^c   Sears, Nicholas ^b  

^a LifeLink Transplant Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Stent revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; RESTENOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0031773937     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960211213     Document Type: Article

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