Elective stenting of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis: Effect of debulking before stenting and intravascular ultrasound guidance

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1054-1060

  Park, Seung Jung ^a,c   Hong, Myeong Ki ^a   Lee, Cheol Whan ^a   Kim, Jae Joong ^a   Song, Jae Kwan ^a   Kang, Duk Hyun ^a   Park, Seong Wook ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0034806889     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01491-7     Document Type: Article

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