Pre-Drug-Eluting Stent Debulking of Bifurcated Coronary Lesions

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 1941-1945

  Tsuchikane, Etsuo ^a   Aizawa, Tadanori ^b   Tamai, Hideo ^c   Igarashi, Yasumi ^d   Kawajiri, Kenji ^e   Ozawa, Noriyuki ^f   Nakamura, Shigeru ^g   Oku, Koji ^h   Kijima, Mikihiro ⁱ   Suzuki, Takahiko ^a  

^a Toyohashi Heart Center Toyohashi   (Japan)

^b THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Kusatsu Heart Center   (Japan)

^d SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Matsubara City Hospital   (Japan)

^f ASAHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g KYOTO KATSURA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

ⁱ HOSHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35748938771     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.07.066     Document Type: Article

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