Acute and follow-up results using a new atherectomy catheter for proximal LAD lesions and influence on LCx ostium

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-11

  Oikawa, Yuji ^a   Yajima, Junji ^a   Kirigaya, Hajime ^a   Nagashima, Kazuyuki ^a   Akabane, Masafumi ^a   Funada, Ryuichi ^a   Matsuno, Shunsuke ^a   Aizawa, Tadanori ^a  

^a THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CATHETERIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846145704     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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