Impact of catheter sizes and intracoronary glyceryl trinitrate on the TIMI frame count when digital angiograms are acquired at lower frame rates during elective angiography and PCI

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 231-238

  Vijayalakshmi, Kunadian ^a   Kunadian, Babu ^a   Whittaker, Victoria J ^b   Wright, Robert A ^a   Hall, James A ^a   Somasundram, Upendra ^a   Stewart, Michael J ^a   Sutton, Andrew ^a   Davies, Adrian ^a   De Belder, Mark A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiography; Catheters; Frame rates; Intracoronary glyceryl trinitrate; Percutaneous coronary intervention; TIMI (thrombolysis in myocardial infarction) frame count

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 36348971583     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482940701305417     Document Type: Article

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