Safety of deferring angioplasty in patients with normal coronary flow velocity reserve

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-87

  Ferrari, Markus ^a   Schnell, Bärbel ^b   Werner, Gerald S ^a   Figulla, Hans R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032895149     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00552-X     Document Type: Article

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