Distal embolic protection for SVG interventions: Can we afford not to use it?

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 481-484

  Shaia, Norman ^a   Heuser, Richard R ^a  

^a Phoenix Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBOLISM PREVENTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 28444491070     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2005.00089.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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