A synergistic approach to optimal stenting: Directional coronary atherectomy prior to coronary artery stent implantation - The atherolink registry

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1853-1859

  Höpp, Hans Wilhelm ^a,d   Baer, Frank Michael ^a   Özbek, Cem ^b   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^c   Scheller, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034669463     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00967-0     Document Type: Article

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