Acute and long-term outcome of unprotected left main coronary angioplasty compared to the anticipated surgical risk

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 871-877

  Rademacher, Wilma ^a   Knape, Alexander ^b   Schumm, Julia ^a   Ferrari, Markus ^a   Lauten, Alexander ^a   Mudra, Harald ^b   Figulla, Hans R ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Hospital Munich Neuperlach   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Left main coronary artery; Mortality; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349102472     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.178632     Document Type: Article

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