Elective stenting in small coronary arteries: Results of the Italian prospective multicenter registry MICROSCOPE

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 406-411

  Airoldi, Flavio ^a   Di Mario, Carlo ^a   Presbitero, Patrizia ^a   Maiello, Luigi ^a   Carcagnì, Addolorata ^a   Bortone, Alessandro ^a   Cremonesi, Alberto ^a   Castriota, Fausto ^a   Frasheri, Arian ^a   Rubino, Antonio ^a   Pernice, Vincenzo ^a   Rubartelli, Paolo ^a   Reimers, Bernhard ^a   Colombo, Antonio ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary stenosis; Stenting

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; Q WAVE; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036658506     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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