The impact of chronically diseased coronary arteries and stenting on the corrected TIMI frame count in elective coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 691-700

  Vijayalakshmi, Kunadian ^a   Kunadian, Babu ^a   Whittaker, Victoria J ^b   Williams, David ^a   Wright, Robert A ^a   Sutton, Andrew G C ^a   Hall, James A ^a   De Belder, Mark A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiography; Angioplasty; Quantitative coronary angiography; Reference diameter; TIMI frame count

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; STENOSIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36348936669     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21215     Document Type: Article

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