Ostial RCA intervention: Guiding catheter challenges and use of a buddy wire to perform focused-force angioplasty on a severely calcific ostial right coronary lesion

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Hussain, Farrukh ^a   Kashour, Tarek ^a   Rajaram, Mahadevan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; EPTIFIBATIDE; HEPARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; STENTS;

EID: 33846168097     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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