Angioplasty of totally occluded old vein grafts with new interventional techniques: A long-term follow-up study

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 144-146

  Luo, Jian F ^a   Liu, Ming W ^a   Wong, Peter M T ^a   Mathur, Atul ^a   Iyer, Sriram S ^a   Baxley, William A ^a   Dean, Larry S ^a   Roubin, Gary S ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Atherectomy; Follow up; Occlusion; Stent; Urokinase; Vein graft

Indexed keywords

UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN OCCLUSION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0031804372     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199806)44:2<144::AID-CCD4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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