Feasibility of sequential thrombus aspiration and filter distal protection in the management of very high thrombus burden lesions

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 317-323

  Burzotta, Francesco ^a   Trani, Carlo ^a   Romagnoli, Enrico ^a   De Vita, Maria ^a   Talarico, Giovanni Paolo ^a   Ferrante, Giuseppe ^a   Porto, Italo ^a   Leone, Antonio Maria ^a   Niccoli, Giampaolo ^a   Schiavoni, Giovanni ^a   Rebuzzi, Antonio Giuseppe ^a   Mongiardo, Rocco ^a   Mazzari, Mario Attilio ^a   Crea, Filippo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY STENT; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; THROMBUS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; EMBOLISM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SUCTION;

EID: 34548088423     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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