Final kissing balloon inflation by classic crush stenting did not improve the clinical outcomes for the treatment of unprotected left main bifurcation lesions: The importance of double-kissing crush technique

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-172

  Chen, Shaoliang ^a   Zhang, Junjie ^a   Ye, Fei ^a   Chen, Yundai ^b   Fang, Weiyi ^c   Wei, Meng ^d   He, Ben ^e   Sun, Xuewen ^a   Yang, Song ^a   Kwan, Tak W ^f,g  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI CHEST HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Department of Pharmacy   (China)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g China Town Cardiology P C   (United States)

Author keywords

Left main coronary disease; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Quantitative coronary angiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TICLOPIDINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; SMOKING HABIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39749129998     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21317     Document Type: Article

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