Temporary Pulmonary Stent Placement as Emergency Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism. First Experimental Evaluation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 812-816

  Schmitz Rode, Thomas ^a   Verma, Rajeev ^b   Pfeffer, Joachim G ^a   Hilgers, Ralf Dieter ^c   Günther, Rolf W ^b  

^a Helmholtz Institut fur Biomedizinische Technik   (Germany)

^b Department of Diagnostic Radiology ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; POLITEF;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SHEEP; STENTS;

EID: 33746790672     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.04.079     Document Type: Article

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