Unique single coronary artery with acute myocardial infarction: Observation of the culprit lesion by intravascular ultrasound and coronary angioscopy

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-276

  Takano, Masamichi ^a   Seimiya, Koji ^a   Yokoyama, Shinya ^a   Okamatsu, Kentaro ^a   Ishibashi, Fumiyuki ^a   Uemura, Ryota ^a   Hata, Noritake ^a   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Atherosclerotic plaque; Coronary angioscopy; Coronary stent deployment; Intravascular ultrasound; Single coronary artery

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SINUS; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; JAPAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RESTENOSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN; ANGIOSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA;

ADULT; ANGIOSCOPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0038189507     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.44.271     Document Type: Article

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