Intravascular low-power laser irradiation after coronary stenting: Long-term follow-up

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 212-215

  De Scheerder, Ivan K ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Kaul, Upendra ^b   Singh, Balbir ^b   Sahota, Harry ^c   Keelan, Michael H ^d   Kipshidze, Nicholas N ^e   Moses, Jeffrey ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Batra Hospital India   (India)

^c GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Coronary artery disease; Lasers; Restenosis; Stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER ANGIOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0035073661     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.1040     Document Type: Article

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