Coronary bifurcation lesions: To stent one branch or both?

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 447-450

  Assali, Abid R ^a   Teplitsky, Igal ^a   Hasdai, David ^a   Rechavia, Eldad ^a   Solodky, Alejandro ^a   Sela, Ofer ^a   Butto, Nader ^a   Shor, Nurit ^a   Fuchs, Shmuel ^a   Battler, Alexander ^a   Kornowski, Ran ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bifurcation lesion; Restenosis; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY RISK; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTION; RESTENOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544272946     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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