Coronary steal syndrome with coil embolization of a large LIMA side branch: Radionuclide evidence for reversible ischemia

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 360-363

  Abdo, Nasser ^a   Curran, Peter J ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Tobis, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coil embolization; Coronary bypass surgery; Doppler flow; Fractional flow reserve; Left internal mammary artery; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY STEAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCINTISCANNING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RECURRENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 27644497820     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20501     Document Type: Article

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