Stenting unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis in heart transplant patients - The good, bad, and the ugly

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1228-1232

  Weston, Mark W ^a   Spoto Jr , Edward ^a,b   Sommers, Eric ^b   Sears, Nicholas ^b   Novitzky, Dimitri ^b  

^a LifeLink Transplant Institute   (United States)

^b TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS;

EID: 0034768008     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(01)00318-7     Document Type: Article

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