A modified balloon crush approach improves side branch access and side branch stent apposition during crush stenting of coronary bifurcation lesions

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-371

  Collins, Nicholas ^a   Dzavik, Vladimir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balloon crush; Bifurcation; Coronary angioplasty; Stenting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON CRUSH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33748324526     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20791     Document Type: Article

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