Isolated and significant left main coronary artery disease: Demographics, hemodynamics and angiographic features

Angiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 464-477

  Mahajan, Nitin ^a,b   Hollander, Gerald ^a   Malik, Bilal ^a   Temple, Brian ^a   Thekkoott, Deepak ^a   Abrol, Sunil ^a   Schulhoff, Nancy ^a   Ghosh, Joydeep ^a   Shani, Jacob ^a   Lichstein, Edgar ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Bldg 902 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEFT MAIN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 33748999535     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319706290740     Document Type: Article

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