Chronic total occlusions in the superficial femoral artery: A novel strategy using a 1.5 mm J-Tip hydrophilic guidewire with an over-the-wire balloon catheter under ultrasound guidance

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-192

  Kawarada, Osami ^a,b   Yokoi, Yoshiaki ^a   Morioka, Nobuyuki ^a   Nakata, Shinji ^a   Takemoto, Kazushi ^a  

^a Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Chronic total occlusion; Superficial femoral artery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 20344386744     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20368     Document Type: Article

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