Immediate and Medium-Term Outcomes Following the Treatment of Very Long (≥ 50 mm) Chronic Total Coronary Artery Occlusions

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-9

  Sheiban, Imad ^a   Moretti, Claudio ^a   Kumar, Prathap ^a   Gagnor, Andrea ^a   Leonardo, Filippo ^a   Montaldo, Tiziana ^a   Marra, Walter Grosso ^a   Omedè, Pierluigi ^a   Trevi, Gianpaolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic total occlusion; Coronary angioplasty; Coronary artery disease; Stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345861753     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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