Use of a deflectable tip catheter to facilitate complex interventions beyond insertion of coronary bypass grafts: Three case reports

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 862-866

  Routledge, Helen ^a   Lefèvre, Thierry ^a,b   Ohanessian, Alice ^a   Louvard, Yves ^a   Dumas, Pierre ^a   Morice, Marie Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT CARDIOVASCULAIRE PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUT HOSPITALIER JACQUES CARTIER   (France)

Author keywords

Bypass grafts coronary; New devices; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 38049016383     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21230     Document Type: Article

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