Different strategies of retrograde approach in coronary angioplasty for chronic total occlusion

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-19

  Saito, Shigeru ^a  

^a SHONAN KAMAKURA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CART; Catching the retrograde guidewire; Collaterals; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Retrograde approach; Retrograde true lumen tracking; Reverse anchoring; Total occlusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549100655     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21316     Document Type: Article

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