Combined use of aspiration catheter and distal embolisation protection device to facilitate angioplasty of a totally occluded saphenous vein graft

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-121

  Hamilos, Michalis I ^a   Kochiadakis, George E ^a   Karalis, Ioannis ^a   Skalidis, Emmanuel I ^a   Igoumenidis, Nikolaos E ^a   Vardas, Panos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; Embolism; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CATHETERIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS;

EID: 34548062924     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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