Percutaneous intervention for unprotected left main disease prior to explantation of a left ventricular assist device

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 471-474

  Butman, Samuel M ^a,b   Jamison, Karen ^a   Slepian, Marvin ^a   Edling, Nancy ^a   Arabia, Francisco ^a   Copeland, Jack G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assist device; Coronary angioplasty; Left main

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; REVASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0042031489     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10540     Document Type: Article

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