Stent placement for ostial left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis: Acute and long-term (2-year) results

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 267-271

  Park, Seung Jung ^a   Lee, Cheol Whan ^a   Hong, Myeong Ki ^a   Kim, Jae Joong ^a   Park, Seong Wook ^a  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coronary artery; Ostial disease; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESTENOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0342948773     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(200003)49:3<267::AID-CCD9>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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