Percutaneous coronary intervention of unprotected left main coronary artery in the emergent/urgent setting

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 202-206

  Hendler, Alberto ^a   Kaluski, Edo ^a   Blatt, Alex ^a   Gurevich, Yosef ^a   Zyssman, Izhak ^a   Vered, Zvi ^a   Danicek, Vladimir ^a   Krakover, Ricardo ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247862284     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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