The vascular response induced by transmyocardial laser revascularization is determined by the size of the channel scar: Results of CO2, holmium and excimer lasers

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-40

  Huikeshoven, Menno ^a   Beliën, Jeroen A M ^b   Tukkie, Raymond ^a   Beek, Johan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Animal model; Myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EXCIMER LASER; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOLMIUM LASER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CICATRIX; CORONARY VESSELS; HOLMIUM; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 4043099634     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20070     Document Type: Article

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