Endocardial cryotherapy as a novel strategy of improving myocardial perfusion in a patient with severe coronary artery disease

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-232

  Segev, Amit ^a   Strauss, Bradley H ^a   Coates, Geoffry ^b   Freeman, Michael R ^a   Gallo, Richard ^c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arteriogenesis; Cold treatment; Positron emission tomography imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CRYOTHERAPY; ENDOCARDIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0141790846     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10621     Document Type: Article

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