Directional atherectomy facilitates the interventional procedure and leads to a low rate of recurrent stenosis in left anterior descending and left circumflex artery ostium stenoses: Subgroup analysis of the FLEXI-CUT study

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1285-1289

  Dahm, J B ^a,b   Ruppert, J ^a   Hartmann, S ^a   Vogelgesang, D ^a   Hummel, A ^a   Felix, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748089666     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.081752     Document Type: Article

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