Immediate and long-term results of elective and emergent percutaneous interventions on protected and unprotected severely narrowed left main coronary arteries

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 242-246

  Keeley, Ellen C ^a   Aliabadi, Darius ^a   O'Neill, William W ^a   Safian, Robert D ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEVICE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033555563     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00827-3     Document Type: Article

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