Extreme coronary guide catheter support: Report of two cases of a novel telescopic guide catheter system

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 908-911

  Stys, Adam T ^a   Lawson, William ^a   Brown, David ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back up; Complex coronary lesions; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Telescopic guiding catheter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STENTS;

EID: 33744811156     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20758     Document Type: Article

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