ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Summary article: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/SCAI Writing Committee to Update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention)

Circulation

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 156-175

  Smith, Sidney C ^a,a   Feldman, Ted E ^a   Hirshfeld, John W ^a   Jacobs, Alice K ^a   Kern, Morton J ^a   King III, Spencer B ^a   Morrison, Douglass A ^a   O'Neill, William W ^a   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a   Whitlow, Patrick L ^a   Williams, David O ^a   Antman, Elliott M ^a   Adams, Cynthia D ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a   Faxon, David P ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^a   Halperin, Jonathan L ^a   Hiratzka, Loren F ^a   Hunt, Sharon Ann ^a   Nishimura, Rick ^a   Ornato, Joseph P ^a   Page, Richard L ^a   Riegel, Barbara ^a   more..

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN; WARFARIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; STANDARD; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; HUMANS;

EID: 33644872364     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.170815     Document Type: Review

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