Coronary pressure measurement to determine treatment strategy for equivocal left main coronary artery lesions

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 271-277

  Suemaru, Shunji ^a   Iwasaki, Kohichiro ^b   Yamamoto, Keizo ^b   Kusachi, Shozo ^c   Hina, Kazuyoshi ^b   Hirohata, Satoshi ^a   Hirota, Minoru ^a   Murakami, Masaaki ^b   Kamikawa, Shigeshi ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^b   Shiratori, Yasushi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sakakibara Hospital   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Catheterization; Coronary artery disease; Follow up; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 29544445943     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-005-0849-1     Document Type: Article

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