Successful percutaneous interventions with limited crossing of the penetration catheter into severe coronary artery stenoses

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ho, Paul C ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CALCINOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33847627056     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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