Successful use of a new guidewire with radiofrequency ablation capability for the treatment of chronic total occlusion at the ostium of the left anterior descending artery

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 277-279

  Hoye, Angela ^a   Lemos, Pedro A ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECANALIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BALLOON DILATATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 18244366853     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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