Treatment of calcified coronary lesions with Palmaz-Schatz stents: An intravascular ultrasound study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1224-1231

  Hoffmann, Rainer ^a,b   Mintz, G S ^a   Popma, J J ^a   Satler, L F ^a   Kent, K M ^a   Pichard, A D ^a   Leon, M B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcified coronary lesions; Intracoronary stents; Intravascular ultrasound; Rotational atherectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032146975     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1028     Document Type: Article

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