Catheter-based percutaneous myocardial laser revascularization in patients with end-stage coronary artery disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1663-1670

  Lauer, Bernward ^a   Junghans, Ulrike ^a   Stahl, Fabian ^a   Kluge, Regina ^b   Oesterle, Stephen N ^c   Schuler, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PILOT PROJECTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033571152     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00419-2     Document Type: Article

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