Paclitaxel-eluting stents for the treatment of chronic total coronary occlusions: A strategy of extensive lesion coverage with drug-eluting stents

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Werner, Gerald S ^a   Schwarz, Gero ^a   Prochnau, Dirk ^a   Fritzenwanger, Michael ^a   Krack, Andreas ^a   Betge, Stefan ^a   Figulla, Hans R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic coronary occlusion; Drug eluting stents; Paclitaxel; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; PACLITAXEL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; RESTENOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACLITAXEL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 30344437233     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20437     Document Type: Article

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