Complex decision-making for percutaneous coronary intervention in a patient with coronary artery bypass grafting: Use of FFR in multivessel lesion selection

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 468-470

  Parham, Walter A ^a   Kern, Morton J ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0041664913     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10572     Document Type: Article

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