Initial experience in the treatment of chronic superficial femoral artery occlusions with fiberoptic guidance technology

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 485-488

  Morales, Philip ^a   Kirvaitis, Romas ^a   Heuser, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Intraluminal Technologies   (United States)

^c Phoenix Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Chronic total occlusion; Imaging; Peripheral vascular disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY OCCLUSION;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544229163     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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