Emergency percutaneous coronary interventions for unprotected left main stenoses: Immediate and long term follow up

Heart

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1067-1068

  Brueren, B R G ^a   Ernst, J M P G ^b   Suttorp, M J ^b   Ten Berg, J M ^b   Rensing, B J W M ^b   Mast, E G ^b   Bal, E T ^b   Six, A J ^b   Plokker, H W M ^b  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY STENOSIS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 4344569225     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.021378     Document Type: Article

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