Procedural outcomes and long-term survival among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention of a chronic total occlusion in native coronary arteries: A 20-year experience

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 409-414

  Suero, James A ^a   Marso, Steven P ^a   Jones, Philip G ^a   Laster, Steven B ^a   Huber, Kenneth C ^a   Giorgi, Lee V ^a   Johnson, Warren L ^a   Rutherford, Barry D ^a,b  

^a SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034888004     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01349-3     Document Type: Article

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