Stenting in patients with depressed LVEF: Expanding the territorial boundaries of PCI: Editorial comment

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 434-435

  Topaz, On ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; EDITORIAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; STENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0042165894     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10579     Document Type: Editorial

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