Transmyocardial laser revascularization with excimer laser: Clinical results at 1 year

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 498-503

  Lee, Leonard Y ^a   O’Hara, Maureen F ^a   Finnin, Eileen B ^a   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a   Szulc, Massamiliano ^a   Kligfield, Paul D ^a   Okin, Peter M ^a   Wayne Isom, O ^a   Rosengart, Todd K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXCIMER LASER; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033840790     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01484-3     Document Type: Article

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