Provisional T-drug-eluting stenting technique for the treatment of bifurcation lesions: Clinical, myocardial scintigraphy and (late) coronary angiographic results

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 92-97

  Vigna, Carlo ^a   Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe ^b   Amico, Cesare M ^a   Lanna, Pompeo ^a   Stanislao, Mario ^a   Santoro, Tiberio ^a   Valle, Guido ^a   Fanelli, Raffaele ^a   Loperfido, Francesco ^c  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BIFURCATION STENOSIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; Q WAVE; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; T STENTING; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33847617441     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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